culture and media

A cooperation accord signed Wednesday between the Italian news agency ANSA and its Tunisian counterpart TAP will focus on the Mediterranean, political and humanitarian tensions as well as economic relations between the countries in the region. The agreement was signed in Tunis by ANSA CEO Giuseppe Cerbone and his TAP ...

After the release of Reporters Without Borders’ free speech index for 2017, the Tunisian Journalists’ Syndicate blamed the government for the retreat of free speech in the country, Al-Araby Al-Jadeed reported yesterday. The report indicated that Tunisia was ranked 96th in the list of world countries on the free speech ...

The Arab Satellite Communications Organization – Arabsat – sponsors and participates in the 18th edition of Arab Festival for Radio and Television, organised by the Arab States Broadcasting Union (ASBU), from May 25-28, 2017, in Yasmine Hammamet, Tunisia, attended by several media figures and broadcasters from the Middle East and ...

Expansive project allows users to explore more than 6,000 songs from famed ethnomusicologist’s collection Before his 2002 death, ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax spent decades recording and archiving the world’s traditional music. Now the organization he founded, the Association for Cultural Equity, is aiming to continue his research with a newly established ...

A techno music festival will be held on April 29-30 amid the ancient ruins of the city of Dougga (formerly Thugga), in north-west Tunisia, a UNESCO world heritage site. The ”Dougga Fest – Sound of Stones” is organized by the international festival association of Dougga, with the patronage of the ...

Tunisian brilliant and talented journalist Mabrouka Khedir was honored to be the guest of  International  actor Morgan Freeman in his new programme STORY OF US on National Geographic. In London, in front of parliament, she remembered the harsh events that took place in the Maghreb. Mabrouka had the courage and the opportunity to cover for ...

 The Bardo museum in Tunis will host an exhibit on pre-Roman antiquities that are part of the Uffizi’s collection – a way to boost the cultural ties between Tuscany and Tunisia and most of all relaunch the museum after the March 18, 2015 terror attack. The announcement was made by ...

Chairman of National Human Rights Committee (NHRC) Dr Ali bin Sumaikh al-Marri said yesterday that the Arabic calligraphy exhibition on human rights in Islamic culture included a wide range of art work that showed the link between Islam and the universal declaration of human rights as well as other international ...

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 ...