‘Doc a Tunis’ festival kicks off, to run 5-9/4
The 11th edition of the Doc a’ Tunis film festival started on Wednesday on the theme of ‘Humans and Hope’ and will run through April 9. The festival is held...
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Tunisian pavilion to issue travel documents at Venice Biennale
Migration will be the focus of the country’s first Biennale project in more than 50 years Tunisia will have a national pavilion at the Venice Biennale this year for the...
Emel Mathlouthi sings for humanity
Emel Mathlouthi’s powerful words, a tribute to the children of Syria, ring out in The Lexington in north London. Combining traditional Tunisian music with contemporary electronic beats, her stage movements...
Tunis International book fair
The Tunis International book fair is set to open on March 25 in El Kram Exhibition Center (Tunisian suburb). As an exceptional event for the lovers of books and titles,...
Mark Hamill shares the first ever photo of Luke Skywalker
IT MIGHT not be throwback Thursday but Mark Hamill was definitely feeling a little nostalgic, taking to Twitter to post an adorable vintage photo. The photo in question is of...
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...
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...
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...
