The Middle East and North Africa region has only just caught up to its solar energy potential. The abundance of sunlight has made the region a natural location
![Members of Iraq's PMF march in a symbolic funerary parade in Baghdad on 29 June, 2021, in remembrance of those killed in a recent US raid. [Getty]](/sites/default/files/styles/image_156x88/public/2021-06/GettyImages-1233712994.jpg?h=903dff9f&itok=-Ux71gNp)
![After the destruction of the Tabqa Dam during the Syrian Civil War, residents in Raqqa have turned to solar energy to subsist [Getty Images]](/sites/default/files/styles/image_156x88/public/2021-06/GettyImages-1198658396.jpg?h=199d8c1f&itok=xANpUZ_u)
