The 14th annual Arab Film Festival Australia (AFFA) returns to Canberra on September 1-2, focusing on gender themes with an impressive program of four features and four short films. AFFA will screen films...
Tunisia- Stances expressed by Ennahdha Party and Al Nidaa Party have revealed a huge difference in points of view towards the ministerial amendment that was announced by Prime Minister of...
Citizen activism is seeing ‘marry your rapist’ laws disappearing, finally. But laws protecting perpetrators of rape are still in place all over the world, writes Janelle Weissman from UN Women National...
Libya’s Prime Minister, Fayez Al-Sarraj visits Khartoum today for talks with his Sudanese counterpart, Omar Al-Bashir aimed at reducing the presence of armed rebels groups on the joint border, the...
In a video, Istanbul-based Wagdy Ghoneim attacked President Essebsi for urging ‘gender equality, equal inheritance rights’ in Tunisia. Turkey announced on Friday that it would consider legal action against Istanbul-based...
Tunisia has seen improvement in the security situation this year, which has greatly helped the tourism rebound, a senior official told Xinhua in a recent interview. Leila Tekaia, manager of...
A member of the Municipal Council of Misrata, Ali Abusitta, stated that a meeting between the delegations of Misrata and Tawergha was held in Tunisia which also included the UN...
In July, the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) signalled its intention to begin regulating virtual currencies. The announcement that the central bank would be trialling cryptocurrency regulations, with a view...
The Trump administration has surprised Egypt’s autocratic government by delaying or diverting nearly $300 million in U.S. aid. It’s an appropriate response to the most severe repression in the Arab...
A three-day conference with debates in Tunis on September 22-24 will seek to inform the public on the situation in southern Mediterranean countries heavily affected by migration. Tunisia, Libya, Algeria,...
