Visiting the Tunisian desert where ‘Star Wars’ was filmed
There’s a reason the original “Star Wars” movie was filmed here in the deserts of southern Tunisia. This stark, remote landscape looks like another planet. One of Tunisia’s vast desert...
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Arabsat participates in Arab Radio and Television Festival
ARABSAT is sponsoring and participating in the 19th Arab Radio and Television Festival, which will be held from 26th-29th April 2018 in Tunis, in the presence of a number of media professionals...
Free museums and archaeological sites in Tunisia On Unesco international...
Tunisia is celebrating the International Day for Monuments and Sites, set up by Unesco in 1983, with free entrance to museums and archaeological sites across the country. According to data...
UNESCO to Combat Extremism through Youth Projects in Jordan, Libya,...
UNESCO will launch April 24 a pilot project: “Youth Preventing Violent Extremism” in four Arab countries, namely Jordan, Libya, Morocco, and Tunisia. Funded by the UN Counter-terrorism Centre (UNCCT) and...
Journalists should work together to drive quality reporting, says Google
Cooke noted that collaboration among journalists from various media organisations will tackle the challenge of verification. With the demand for quality journalism and information that people can trust growing as...
Google to train 4,000 Mideast journalists amid mounting criticism of...
Google will train 4,000 journalists in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) by the end of next year, a senior executive said at the Arab Media Forum in Dubai....
34th International Book Fair kicks off on April 6 in...
The 34th edition of International book fair of Tunis will kick off on April 6, by Prime Minister Youssef Chahed, with attendance of figures from the world of culture, media...
Tunis exhibit celebrates long tradition of plastic art, highlights challenges
Plastic art, including painting, sculptures and installations, has a tradition in Tunisia dating to 1936. In celebration of Tunisia’s national heritage month, the Union of Tunisian Plastic Artists inaugurated an...
Tunisia opens City of Culture
The City of Culture, Tunisia’s largest multi-faceted cultural monument, was officially inaugurated on Wednesday evening. The richly equipped City of Culture complex, launched a decade ago but long stalled, incorporates...
Challenging mix of modern art, politics and history in Bardo...
The “Barker of Bardo,” a fictional persona created by Faten Rouissi, welcomes visitors to an exhibition of contemporary art. While the Bardo National Museum usually greets visitors with mosaics on...
