culture and media

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 meeting of the executive board of the SNJT, the Congress will be held within its legal deadlines. It is worth ...

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 institutions. Last month, Prime Minister Youssef Chahed issued circular n°4 of 15 January 2017 asking civil servants not to speak to the ...

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 and Couscous Riots. Forced out of school, she abandons her parents and flees her homeland for a new life in ...

Prime Minister Youssef Chahed announced, Saturday at the National Union of Tunisian Journalists (SNJT)’s headquarters, eleven measures and decisions taken at an inner Cabinet meeting held Friday. They are: – Establish the governance of public advertising for written and electronic press through the creation of a commission setting criteria for ...

Outfits displayed of soldiers of the Tunisian army during an exhibition titled “The awakening of a nation”, displaying the art at the dawn of modern Tunisia 1837-1881″ at the Ksar Saïd Palace in Tunis, Tunisia on January 12. The event is a Tunisian art exhibition resulting from a public-private partnership ...

French journalist and radio and TV host Arlette Chabot presented on Saturday afternoon her book of interviews with President of the Republic Béji Caïd Essebsi. Entitled “Tunisia: Democracy in Land of Islam,” the book is a compilation of interviews started in October 2015. It is meant for foreign readers and ...

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 to kick off is ”Desert Extra” in Tataouine, a cultural, touristic and sports event on January 9-11 in Douiret with ...

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 ruins of Pompeii in commemoration of the migrants who have died trying to reach Europe via the Mediterranean Sea. The ...

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 Director of the event Chokri Mabkhout. “The increase in the budget of the fair was decided in consultation with the ...

The Arab Spring opened the door to some greater freedoms in Middle East news media and some social change in spite of reverses from the political upheaval in the region. In a study of four countries in the Middle East in the period immediately following the Arab Spring in 2010-2012 ...