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MENA Now Morning Briefing, February 24, 2021

*This daily morning briefing covers news as presented by the media, and does not present the views of MENA Now.

* All sources were drawn from publicly available online news sources

Lebanon Today

Lebanon’s vaccination program is thrown into question as MPs appear to bypass rules to get inoculated; http://bit.ly/37LZnE1

The logic of the lira: The Lebanese currency is back trading above LL9,000 to the dollar. Here’s why; http://bit.ly/2Mtq3SC

Regional Overview

Covid-19: Israel donates vaccines to countries that moved embassies to Jerusalem; http://bit.ly/2ZReZla

Egypt's Sisi faces backlash against removal of the Quran from school textbooks; http://bit.ly/2P31Tiy