Category: voices

Tunisia won the Cous Cous world championship, a competition between 10 countries organized during the Couscoust Fest in San Vito Lo Capo  in Sicily, Italy that ended on Sunday. The recipe presented by Nabil Barkous, who works at the restaurant Joia of chef Pietro Leemann, with the help of chefs Youssef Abdelli and Lamjed Hosni, was the most appreciated by the technical jury among those of the nine other competing nations: Angola, Ivory Coast,  Italy, Morocco, Senegal, Spain and the United States. The jury of experts, chaired by Fiammetta Fadda,…

Political activist and president of the Tunisian Association “Tahia Tounes” Kaddour Ayari commended the Tunisian potential and the deep experience of Tunisians in all fields, namely political, social, cultural and scientific. The U.S. citizens are not smarter than the Tunisian people, but the difference is their devotion and sincere love to their homeland, he said in an interview with TunisianMonitorOnline Kaddour Ayari who had been in the Tunisian Army as an officer was forced to leave the country earlier before the Tunisian Revolution in 2000. He went to the United…

Just as birds fly the length of Africa on their migration, so the love of birds forms a chain linking different schools in different countries across the continent. On the 12th of May, each school celebrated World Migratory Bird Day in their own unique way. Here are just a few. Kallisaye Ornithological Reserve, Senegal This beautiful protected area is renowned for its commitment to educating children. On World Migratory Bird Day, it launched a 48-hour programme of activities, all built around unifying voices for the protection of migratory birds. The…

The Tunisian Association of Hikers (French: ATR) organised last Saturday, September 15th an Open Day during which it made an overview to its members and friends of nature of its innovations and projects of the year. Held for the 7th consecutive time, the ATR’s Open Day was held in the Tunis city of Culture under the theme “Hikes in Tunisia: inclusive Innovations”. Amir Bourguiba, Member of the Pinna Association and its representative in the Open Day of the ATR Association, gave an exclusive interview to TunisianMonitorOnline during which he talked…

Davidson County Community College (DCCC) opens its doors yet again to the world. The campus welcomes seven international students and scholars from four different countries for the 2018-2019 academic year. Four international students travelled to Davidson County from Tunisia. The students are a part of the Tunisia Community College Scholarship Program sponsored through the U.S. Department of State’s Thomas Jefferson Scholarship Program. “We are all here to rise up in this world and make it a better world,” Tunisia program student Dhia Salaoui said. “I didn’t expect to be surrounded…

 In an Aug. 29 joint press conference with the Association of Ivorian Students and Interns in Tunisia, Yemina Thabet, the head of the Tunisian Association for the Support of Minorities, called on the Tunisian Parliament to speed up the ratification of the draft law criminalizing racism. Eight Ivorians were physically and verbally abused by Tunisians in late August. The Tunisian Forum on Economic and Social Rights, the Euro-Mediterranean Network and the Committee for the Respect of Freedoms and Human Rights first proposed a bill to criminalize racial discrimination in Tunisia at a press conference in March 2016. In June 2016,…