Benjemy : The unclassifiable Tunisian DJ
In which Sarah Ben Hamadi meets a key figure of Tunisia’s cultural underground.
In which Sarah Ben Hamadi meets a key figure of Tunisia’s cultural underground.
Film critic and historian Viola Shafik pillories cinematographic voyeurism.
With illegal immigration from Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco and Libya at an all-time high, desperate North Africans risk death on the Mediterranean.
Shreya Parikh joins an authentic ritual for the birth of the Prophet in her Tunis medina.
Montpellier's venerable Mediterranean film festival announces retrospectives and avant-premières.
Sarah Ben Hamadi explores street art, graffiti and the popular art scene in Tunis.
Farah Abdessamad responds to Tunisia's July 25 constitutional referendum with a poem for her country.
Melissa Chemam in her latest music column interviews Tunisian electro-world creator Imed Alibi.
Mischa Geracoulis reviews the film in which a Paris-trained shrink analyzes fellow Tunisians suffering from mental maladies.
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Writer-translator Nada Ghosn talks to the illustrator of a new graphic novel recounting one of Tunisia's earliest uprisings, in 1984, presaging the Jasmine Revolution.
Rana Asfour reviews a new memoir about the legendary Dajani family, charged by a Turkish sultan with watching over King David's Tomb in Jerusalem, but exiled in 1948.
TMR’s guest editor Aomar Boum admires the growing movement of political cartooning in North Africa and the Middle East.
The Lebanese cartoonist and BD historian George “Jad” Khoury gives an in-depth overview of contemporary comix across the Arab world.
Our correspondent in Tunis looks at President Kaïs Saïed’s un-democratic attempts to save Tunisia from collapse.