Category: culture and media

Tunis Afrique Presse (TAP) news agency and Anadolu Agency signed on Friday a cooperation agreement. The agreement was signed by TAP CEO Lotfi Arfaoui and Anadolu Agency’s Deputy Director-General Mustafa Ozkaya and at a ceremony held at TAP headquarters in Tunis. The cooperation agreement covers the areas of exchanging news through various media (text, image, video, graphics or infography). The agreement also provides for developing exchanges of expertise, press and technical delegations in addition to boosting exchange of media contents between the two agencies in various fields and news bulletins…

Op-ed co written by Swedish Minister of Culture and Democracy, Alice Bah Kuhnke and Irina Bokova, UNESCO Director-General The safety of journalists is deteriorating across the globe. Journalists and media workers are victims of censorship, pressure, threats, physical abuse, violent attacks or mortal violence. Tackling this challenge successfully calls for political will and intensified cooperation. We call on all governments to join UNESCO in a renewed and stronger commitment to defend freedom of expression. The protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms is a priority of the Swedish government. The…

Director of well-received films such as ‘Bab-Âziz,’ ‘The Dove’s Necklace’ and ‘Wanderers of the Desert,’ Tunisian director Nacer Khemir’s new film, ‘Looking for Muhyiddin,’ depicts the life of the great Islamic philosopher Muhyiddin ibn-i Arabi and premieres in Turkey soon. Tunisian director Nacer Khemir is preparing for the release of his movie, “Looking for Muhyiddin,” which focuses on the life of Muhyiddin İbn-i Arabi, in Turkey. Speaking to Anadolu Agency (AA), the famous director who is known for his movies, including “Bab’Aziz,” “The Dove’s Lost Necklace,” and “Wanderers of the…

Brandon Alinger, Star Wars superfan who appears on Mark Hamill’s Pop Culture Quest, talks traveling the world to build his collection of movie memorabilia. The webseries was created by SDCC HQ, and features Mark Hamill on a tour of different collectors’ homes and museums, talking nerd culture, pop culture, and a shared love of movies. It’s a webseries with a lot of appeal for the SDCC crowd, for whom watching the movies just isn’t enough, and collecting comics, action figures, art and props is a hobby all on its own.…

A new documentary by Tunisian director and activist Souheil Bayoudh titled “Open Church”, on the current debate over religious freedom and conscience, is set to debut in coming days throughout Europe and the US at film festivals and film forums. Bayoudh is no stranger to sensitive topics for Tunisian society, such as torture, cannabis use, and irregular emigration, and in this documentary he tackles the truly taboo subject of religious freedom in Tunisia. The approximately 30-minute film depicts stories told by Muslim Tunisians who converted to Christianity. The 2014 Tunisian…