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, […]
Tunisia says Hamas drone expert killed by ‘foreigners’
FRENCH PRESS AGENCY – AFP TUNIS The Tunisian government on Sunday said that foreigners were behind the murder of a Tunisian engineer, after the Palestinian resistance group Hamas said Israel was behind his death. “The investigations concerning the assassination of Tunisian citizen Mohamed Zaouari and the latest findings have proven […]
Two of her daughters joined ISIS. Now she’s trying to save her two younger girls.
Source: The Washington Post By Sudarsan Raghavan MORNAG, Tunisia — In a small box in her bedroom, Oulfa Hamrounni keeps the photo she treasures most. It shows one of her […]
Tunisian Islamic Party Re-elects Moderate Leader
Source: The New York Times By CARLOTTA GALL TUNIS — The leader of Tunisia’s main Islamic political party was re-elected on Monday, winning endorsement for his effort to move the […]
A benchmark April day of Arab despair and radical change
Apr 28,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – RAMI G. KHOURI During a very fast, one-day, visit to Washington, DC on Monday, I participated in a day of lectures and panel discussions organised by a private company on some of the world’s most challenging political and economic issues, including the “Arab youth” […]
Militants attack Tunisian forces near Libyan border, 53 killed
By Reuters – Mar 07,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Tunisian special forces take position during clashes with militants in the southern town of Ben Guerdan, near the Libyan border, on Monday (AFP photo) TUNIS — Dozens of militants stormed through the Tunisian town of Ben Guerdan near the Libyan […]
Tunisian president to lean on Switzerland to complete path to democracy
STATE VISIT By Slaheddine Jourchi FEB 18, 2016 – 17:30 Tunisia’s president visits Bern to talk about democracy building and frozen assets (Reuters) On his first state visit to Bern as the first democratically elected president of Tunisia, Essebsi said the neutral Swiss government had been particularly helpful because it […]
Islam, Democracy and the Future of the Muslim World
Source: Huffington Post By Rached Ghannouchi President of Tunisia’s Ennahdha Party This post is an edited/updated version of Sheikh Rached Ghannouchi’s October 1, 2014 Lecture at Columbia University’s Institute for […]
2011-2016: Arab dashed hopes, opened eyes
Jan 15,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – RAMI G. KHOURI Many analysts this week have marked the five years since the fall of former Tunisian president Zine Al Abidine Ben Ali, the first of several Arab dictators who were toppled from office by a wave of spontaneous street demonstrations across Arab […]
The True Cost of Terrorism: Tunisia’s Tourism Industry Struggles to Survive
By Alexander Osang spiegel.de Maurice Weiss At the end of June, 37 guests of a Tunisian resort hotel died in a hail of terrorist gunfire. Since then, tourists have stayed away, and the tragedy has only just begun. Above the terrace gate at the Hotel Riu Imperial Marhaba in […]
Tunisian firms prepare to issue Islamic bonds
Tunisian firms prepare to issue Islamic bonds BY BERNARDO VIZCAINO Aug 3 Tunisian firms are preparing to issue Islamic bonds as the government finalises rules covering the sector, creating a new funding option for companies in an economy buffeted by labour unrest and militant attacks. Islamic finance – which bars […]
Tunisia overwhelmingly passes anti-terror law
By AP – Jul 25,2015 – Last updated at Jul 25,2015 0 0 googleplus0 0 0 In this June 29, file photo, a hooded Tunisian police officer stands guard ahead of the visit of top security officials of Britain, France, Germany and Belgium at the scene of the shooting attack […]
Tunisia hotel attack: Backdrop to this slaughter is a history of violence against Muslims
Source: The Independent By Robert Fisk, the Independent’s multiple award-winning Middle East correspondent, based in Beirut It didn’t create these Islamists – but it helped lay the foundation for their […]
What is behind the recent bombing wave?
Summary Rami G. Khouri The Daily Star, Lebanon The most dangerous and troubling of the terror attacks in the past week in Tunisia Kuwait, France, Egypt and Yemen are probably the Kuwaiti and Egyptian attacks. The bombing of a Shiite mosque in Kuwait City […]
Thousands of Britons to be flown home after Tunisia massacre
Source: Agence France Presse LONDON: Thousands of British tourists were being flown home Saturday after the Tunisian beach massacre claimed by the Islamic State group, travel firms said. Most of […]
Tunisian gunman took break from travel agent job to shoot tourists
The cousin of Yassine al-Abidi, who gunned down 20 foreign tourists at Tunisia’s Bardo museum, shows a photo of Yassine during an interview with Reuters in Tunis March 20, 2015. (Reuters) Reuters, Omrane Superieur, Tunisia Saturday, 21 March 2015 Shortly before he and a friend gunned down 20 foreign tourists […]
Tunisia shooting: When Isis attacks a museum to destroy the ‘culture of its disbelievers’, what treasure of the Western world is now safe? There have been attacks like this before, but this time it’s not just peoples’ lives in danger
by Robert Fisk, The Independent Because of the ferocious reputation of Isis – created by the “Islamic Caliphate” but assiduously cultivated in the West – we forget thatWednesday’s attack is a mere copy of the far more ruthless assault on foreign tourists launched by Egyptian Islamists during the Mubarak era. […]