For Some in Tunisia, Ramadan Is a Test of Personal Freedom
Source: The New York Times By Lilia Blaise TUNIS — Ramadan ends this week, and that comes none too soon for some in Tunisia — not least the hundred or so […]
Ramadan and the challenge of fasting for Muslim WCup players
Source: Associated Press By HAMZA HENDAWI GROZNY, Russia (AP) — Normally, soccer players feigning injury is nothing new. This time it is. For Tunisia players, their goalkeeper slumping to the […]
In Tunisia, Jews gather at Africa’s oldest synagogue under tight security
Reuters International This content was published on May 2, 2018 A Jewish woman lights candles inside the Ghriba synagogue in Djerba, Tunisia May 2, 2018. REUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah (reuters_tickers) By Tarek […]
Tunisian Islamist party endorses Jewish candidate
Source: AFP Decked out in a striking blue suit and white shirt, matching his political allegiance, Simon Slama rubs shoulders with fellow candidates ahead of Tunisia’s municipal elections. Nothing unusual […]
Jewish candidate for Muslim party breaks barriers in Tunisia
Source: Associated Press By BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Simon Slama and his family are the only Jews left in the Tunisian city of Monastir, once home to […]
Tunisian women march for equal inheritance rights
Source: Reuters ByTarek Amara 2 MIN READ TUNIS (Reuters) – Hundreds of women took to the streets in the Tunisian capital on Saturday to demand equal inheritance rights as men, […]
International Women’s Day: Eight moments that make it the Year of the Woman
Source: BBC News The #MeToo movement against male harassment has empowered women in the US and elsewhere, but it is not the only women’s movement to have an impact over […]
Tunisia: Jewish population determined to stay despite anti-Semitic violence
Source: DW Tunisia has declared itself a multi-faith state. But the attack on the Jewish school in Djerba shows that radical anti-Semitism has its adherents in Tunisia, too – primarily […]
Tunisia arrests 237 in clashes with protests as Jewish school gets attacked
Source: Reuters By Tarek Amara, Ulf Laessing TUNIS (Reuters) – Tunisian police arrested 237 people, including two Islamists, for attacking police stations and government buildings and for vandalism in anti-government protests, […]
Tunisia bans UAE Emirates airline from landing in Tunis
Source: BBC News Tunisia has banned Emirates airline from landing in the capital Tunis after a number of Tunisian women were prevented from boarding its flights. The move comes amid […]
How states can wield ‘official Islam’ to limit radical extremism
Source: The Washington Post By Michael Robbins and Lawrence Rubin November 3 Worshipers arrive for Friday prayers at al-Azhar mosque in Cairo on Dec. 28, 2012. (Khalil Hamra/AP) In a recent interview, Saudi Crown […]
Tunisian women free to marry non-Muslims
Source: BBC News Tunisia has overturned a law that banned women from marrying non-Muslims. A spokeswoman for President Beji Caid Essebsi made the announcement and congratulated women on gaining “the […]
Tunisia scraps ban on Muslim women marrying non-Muslims
Source: Arab News TUNIS: Tunisia has abolished a decades-old ban on Muslim women marrying non-Muslims, the presidency said Thursday. “Congratulations to the women of Tunisia for the enshrinement of the […]
Women Inherit Less Under Islam. One Country’s Changing the Rules
Source: Bloomberg By Jihen Laghmari, Caroline Alexander and Tarek El-Tablawy Halima Ben Diafi says her brothers spent their summer enjoying Tunisia’s Mediterranean coast while she was stuck in the capital, […]
Tunisian President Suggests Allowing Muslim Women to Marry Non-Muslim Men
Source: Egyptian Streets Tunisian President Beji Caed Essibsi called on Sunday on the prime minister and minister of justice to make changes to the publication No 73 that bans Tunisian […]
The Tunisian women who want to be virgins again
Source:BBC In Tunisia, young women are expected to be virgins when they marry, leading to a growing trade in hymen reconstruction surgery. Yasmine (not her real name) looks nervous. She’s biting her nails and checks her mobile phone constantly.”I consider this to be deception and I’m really worried,” she says. We’re on […]
Tunisian sentenced to jail for smoking during Ramadan
Source: Yahoo News Tunis (AFP) – A Tunisian court Monday sentenced to one month in prison a man who smoked a cigarette in public during the Muslim dawn-to-dusk holy fasting […]
Tunisia sentences British DJ for Muslim prayer remix
Source: BBC A Tunisian court has sentenced a British DJ to a year in jail after he played a dance remix of the Muslim call to prayer. London-born Dax J, […]
why hardly any North African people were deported in 2016
Source: The Local A look into why it is so hard for Germany to deport rejected asylum seekers from North Africa.When the first charter plane for rejected Tunisian asylum seekers took off in Leipzig on April 8th 2016, the German Interior Ministry hoped that discussion over faster deportations to North […]
Terrorized Tunisia
TUNIS – The recent terror attack on Berlin’s Christmas market – which killed 12 and injured more than 50 – cast a pall over this year’s holiday celebrations across Europe. Viewed from Tunis, where I happened to be during the fallout, the attack has also had a major, albeit different, […]
