Monia Mazigh’s Hope Has Two Daughter
By Monia Mazigh, translated by Fred A. Reed Arachnide, 296 pages, $22.95 Monia Mazigh’s latest novel takes readers through a cycle of hope, uprising, despair and hope again in a...
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Tunisia explores gender inequality on stage in ‘Terka’
The 30-minute play ‘Terka’ put on stage at 4me Art by a Ihlem Marzouki University collective, the Tunisian Association of Democratic Women (ATFD), will serve as an introduction to debate...
Upstaging jihad in Tunisia’s impoverished mountains
A rustic theatre where performers wear masks carved from cactus aims to win over young Tunisians in a long neglected mountain district that has become a cradle of jihadism. Welcome...
French organize two-day Libyan cultural festival ‘‘Min Ajil Libya’’ in...
The French embassies in Libya and Tunisia unite to organize a Libyan cultural festival entitled “For Libya / Min ajil Libya” on Saturday 11 and Sunday 12 March. The festival...
Stolen Guercino Altarpiece Worth $6 Million Found in Morocco
A collector notified police after illicit dealers attempted to sell him the painting in Casablanca. A painting that was stolen from a church in Modena in 2014 is now on...
Seven times the English language drove the French mad
As French language fanatics kick up a storm about the new English slogan for the Paris 2024 Olympic bid, we take a look at other times the French have lost...
Int’l Women’s Film Festival opens in Aswan
Women and women’s issues are the focus of a new film festival in Aswan starting on February 20, which this year has gender violence as its theme. The International Women’s...
International Festival of the Sahara, wider-reaching celebration of nomadic traditions.
EACH year, in the Tunisian city of Douz on the edge of the Sahara Desert, thousands of people gather to observe a century-old ritual. Over four days they witness and...
SNJT next Congress to be held late April 2017
The next Congress of the National Union of Tunisian Journalists (SNJT) will be held by the end of April 2017. According to a press statement released Friday, after the periodic...
Is Tunisia Rolling Back Freedom of Information?
The Tunisian government is facing accusations of rolling back access to information and media freedom, through its regulation of information and communication units in ministries, state agencies and other government...
