Day: September 22, 2017

THE POWER OF HAVING FUN

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How Meaningful Breaks Can Help You Get More Done  Fun should be a top priority. It shouldn’t be relegated to the bottom drawer, the one you open only when all the real work is done. It’s not a distraction or a diversion. That’s what Dave Crenshaw teaches in his new book, The Power of Having Fun: How Meaningful Breaks Help You Get More Done (and Feel Fantastic!). Dave is the founder of Invaluable, Inc., a coaching and training organization that helps transform businesses. Dave recently spoke with me about his mission to…

Tunisian Navy Rescues Dozens of Migrants in Leaking Boat

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Tunisia’s navy rescued 78 migrants including two girls after their vessel en route to Europe took on water off the coast of Chebba and was stranded for three days, the defense ministry said Friday. Human traffickers increasingly use Tunisia as a launch pad for migrants heading for Europe after Libya’s coast guard aided by armed groups tightened its controls. “Naval forces rescued 78 illegal Tunisian migrants 70 kilometers east of the coast of Chebba on board a boat that was damaged and leaking water,” the ministry said in statement, adding…

Tunisia: Sfax seawater desalination plant to be built in 2018

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Construction of the Grand Sfax desalination plant, in the Sfax governorate, will begin next year, according to Minister of Agriculture, Water Resources and Fishery Samir Taieb as reported by TAP news agency. The plant will treat 200,000 m3 of seawater on a daily basis and be built over 20 hectares in the southern delegation of Sfax. The project’s cost stands at  480 million dinars ($197 million) and will be financed with a loan from the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), to be delivered in 2020, according to Taieb. The infrastructure should provide…

Tunisia backs UN drive to hold Libya elections this year

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Khemaies Jhinaoui, Tunisia’s foreign minister, used his address to the UN General Assembly meeting in New York on Friday to give strong backing to the special envoy’s roadmap for Libya. Mr Jhinaoui said Tunis was co-ordinating closely with Egypt and Algeria as Libya’s neighbours to back Ghassan Salame’s drive to revise the Libya Political Agreement by mid-December. Mr Salame presented the plan to the UN on Wednesday and has set a goal of holding presidential and political elections in the divided North African state by next year. Tunis will host the…

Social and cultural dynamics in the Arab world

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Filled with faceless, fragmented bodies, Thameur Mejri’s paintings express the physical and psychological effects of recent upheavals in the Middle East Emerging Tunisian artist Thameur Mejri’s work examines the social, political and cultural dynamics in the Arab world, especially Tunisia by focusing on the linkages that contemporary mass media creates between masculinity, violence and war. In his first solo show in Dubai, Heretic Spaces, the artist is presenting mixed media paintings, drawings, collages and a video that express the physical and psychological effects of the recent upheavals in the Middle…