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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaParadises of the earth, Part 1: Gabes [video]
The first episode of the ground-breaking web documentary series “Paradises of the Earth” follows an international...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaBut what was so appealing about ISIS?
What happened before, during and after the Tunisian revolution that made the Islamist morbid utopia seem possible...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe anti-Islamist campaign and Arab democracy
Egyptians, Libyans, Tunisians, and other Arabs deserve better than to be told that they must choose between...
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Published in: 50.50In pictures: Chouftouhonna – a North African feminist festival
This unique arts festival began in 2015, in post-revolutionary Tunisia. This year it challenged patriarchy, gender...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaAttacks on Tunisia’s transitional justice process threaten women’s advancement
Continued attacks on the transitional justice process in Tunisia will weaken the gains made by women, and prevent an...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaDespite Tunisia's positive reforms, more changes are needed
Many in Tunisia feel that the lifting of the ban on women marrying non-Muslims is merely a small step, and greater...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaAnother case of energy colonialism: Tunisia’s Tunur solar project
The unrestricted flow of cheap natural resources from the global south to the rich industrialized north, maintains a...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaPolitical Islam in Tunisia: a history of Ennahda and the Tunisian exception
A review of Anne Wolf's Political Islam in Tunisia: A History of Ennahda, a book that presents the hidden history of...
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Published in: 50.50The politics of nudity as feminist protest – from Ukraine to Tunisia
Frontline activists, including women who use their topless bodies as political statements, are gathering in London...
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Published in: HomeTunisi’s dream, Erdogan’s nightmare
“Our principles remind us that not justice, but oppression will inevitably result from an unrestrained one-man rule...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaTunisia’s struggle against corruption: time to fight, not forgive
A new economic reconciliation law protects clientelist structures in Tunisia and replaces the process of...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaBlogging at the time of dictatorship
The Tunisian Internet Agency is responsible for harming national memory. Questions need to be answered and those...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaJemna in Tunisia: an inspiring land struggle in North Africa
Jemna is a beacon of hope for a Tunisia and needs to be supported, celebrated and emulated for the sake of its...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe victims of tyranny and the need for transitional justice in Tunisia
It is important that a law be enacted to criminalize the whitening of dictatorships so that those longing for the...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaTunisia’s moment of truth: process, outcomes, expectations
The historic televised public testimonies of survivors of the repressive regimes in Tunisia since 1950s can open the...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaTunisia: performing justice in difficult times
The Truth and Dignity Commission in Tunisia faces many challenges holding its first public hearings in the country’s...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaUS drone base in Tunisia: expanding a borderless war against terror to North Africa
By normalising the use of drones, the US might be planting a seed that people in the Arab world reject: the seed of...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaFighting for climate/environmental justice in the Maghreb
Environmental problems need to be analysed in a comprehensive way with consideration to social justice, entitlements...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaSowing the seeds of conflict in the Middle East
Whatever else they were guilty of, the two authors of the invasion and occupation of Iraq in 2003, George Bush and...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaKerkennah: on the frontline of resistance to the fossil fuel industry in Tunisia
The effects of climate change and neoliberalism converge in Kerkennah in the worst possible way – but the islands...