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...
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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...
Mother, daughter grapple with Tunisian uprisings
Hope Has Two Daughters is a story about the awakening of political consciousness in two women. Nadia is a Tunisian high school student who becomes involved in the 1984 Bread...
Tunisia starts New Year with three festivals in south
The desert and its culture are at the center of three festivals that will be showcased during Tunisia’s tourism season in the south at the beginning of 2017. The first...
Sarah Jane Morris shoots video in Pompei on migrants
Jazz and soul album on refugees and violence against women NAPLES – The British jazz and soul singer Sarah Jane Morris shot the video for her ‘The Sea’ among the...
C.Mabkhout: book fair budget to be quintupled
The budget of the 33rd edition of the Tunis International Book Fair 2017, scheduled for March 24-April 2, 2017 at El Kram Exhibition Centre, will be raised by 500%, announced...
Review: ‘As I Open My Eyes’ is a fine Tunisian...
Farah is a fiery 18-year-old who wants to skip her chance go to medical school to study music and play in a band with her boyfriend. Hayet is her fiercely...
Tunisia: Hele Beji Wins French Acedemy’s Hervé Deluen Grand Prix
Tunisian female writer Hele Beji has been crowned winner of the famous French Academy Award Hervé Deluen Grand Prix for her exceptional efforts for the promotion of the French language....
As an unhappy man takes control of his destiny, so...
At this year’s Berlin Film Festival, Tunisian drama Hedi won both the best first feature-film award, for director Mohamed Ben Attia, and best actor, for its star Majd Mastoura. The...
French-Tunisian Auteur Raja Amari on Sensual Drama ‘Foreign Body’
In a certain sense, French-Tunisian director-writer Raja Amari creates feminist thrillers, even if she may not choose to describe them that way. In her debut feature “Red Satin” (2002), a...
