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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 at 4ème Art and the Institut Francais de Tunisie (IFT) in the capital as well as other cities, such as ...

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 first time since 1958, presenting a project that focuses on migration and freedom of movement. The project involves Tunisian nationals ...

The Tunis International Book Fair honored at the end of its 33rd session on Sunday many literary and novelist figures in Tunisia and the Arab world, including Kuwaiti writers Amal Randi and Latifa Buti, who held a children’s workshop during the exhibition. Director of Tunis International Book Fair Shokri Al-Mabkhout ...

Egyptian artist Bahia Shehab and French-Tunisian artist eL Seed have been awarded the UNESCO-Sharjah prize for Arab culture for their innovative use of Arabic calligraphy in street art. Shehab, who is the first woman in the region to receive the award, has said that art can be a tool for ...

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 blend pirouettes with staccato choreography, an eerie compliment to the music drummed. When a Tunisian man set himself alight in ...

Hundred delegates from 27 countries of the world participated in the well planned Global Management Summit 2017, at Noida Film City, organized by Ministry of Skill Development And Entrepreneurship in association with ICMEI- International Chamber of Media and Entertainment Industry. The Global Management Summit invited delegates from 27 countries namely ...

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,  the book fair offers them the chance to communicate with prominent writers and to find out beautiful titles while it ...

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 the actor as his iconic Star Wars character Luke Skywalker which Hamill believes was “the very first Luke pic”. The ...

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 story of two girls awakened by civil unrest. Hope Has Two Daughters opens in 1984: Nadia nears completing her lycée ...

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 on the issue of women’s inequality on International Women’s Day on Wednesday. Although Tunisia boasts some of the most advanced ...