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Tag: Tunisia

16 January, 2023 • Sarah Ben Hamadi

Benjemy : The unclassifiable Tunisian DJ

In which Sarah Ben Hamadi meets a key figure of Tunisia’s cultural underground.

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15 December, 2022 • Viola Shafik

Sexploitation or Cinematic Art? The Case of Abdellatif Kechiche

Film critic and historian Viola Shafik pillories cinematographic voyeurism.

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31 October, 2022 • Sarah Ben Hamadi

Thousands of Tunisians Are Attempting the “Harga”

With illegal immigration from Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco and Libya at an all-time high, desperate North Africans risk death on the Mediterranean.

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31 October, 2022 • Shreya Parikh

Celebrating Mawlid An-Nabaoui with Stambeli Trance in Tunis

Shreya Parikh joins an authentic ritual for the birth of the Prophet in her Tunis medina.

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5 October, 2022 • Jordan Elgrably

44th CINEMED fest to Fête Simone Bitton & Abdellatif Kéchiche

Montpellier's venerable Mediterranean film festival announces retrospectives and avant-premières.

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29 August, 2022 • Sarah Ben Hamadi

In Tunis, Art Reinvents and Liberates the City

Sarah Ben Hamadi explores street art, graffiti and the popular art scene in Tunis.

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1 August, 2022 • Farah Abdessamad

Poem for Tunisia: “Court of Nothing”

Farah Abdessamad responds to Tunisia's July 25 constitutional referendum with a poem for her country.

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18 July, 2022 • Melissa Chemam

Tunisia’s Imed Alibi Crosses Borders in new “Frigya” Electronica Album

Melissa Chemam in her latest music column interviews Tunisian electro-world creator Imed Alibi.

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15 July, 2022 • Mischa Geracoulis

Tunisians On the Couch in “Arab Blues”

Mischa Geracoulis reviews the film in which a Paris-trained shrink analyzes fellow Tunisians suffering from mental maladies.

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4 May, 2022 •

A Middle Eastern Food Roundtable, with TMR Writers, Sunday, May 8, 1 PM Eastern

Register Here.   The Markaz Review presents a roundtable conversation on Middle Eastern cuisine among contributors to the TMR • 20 FOOD issue, featuring personal stories and family recipes. This… Continue reading A Middle Eastern Food Roundtable, with TMR Writers, Sunday, May 8, 1 PM Eastern

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21 February, 2022 • Nada Ghosn

“A Tunisian Revolt” — the Rebel Power of Arab Comics

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.

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29 November, 2021 • Rana Asfour

From Jerusalem to a Kingdom by the Sea

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.

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15 August, 2021 • Aomar Boum

Why COMIX? An Emerging Medium of Writing the Middle East and North Africa

TMR’s guest editor Aomar Boum admires the growing movement of political cartooning in North Africa and the Middle East.

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15 August, 2021 • George Jad Khoury

Rebellion Resurrected: The Will of Youth Against History

The Lebanese cartoonist and BD historian George “Jad” Khoury gives an in-depth overview of contemporary comix across the Arab world.

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1 August, 2021 • Iason Athanasiadis

Revolution, Democracy and the Tunisian Exception

Our correspondent in Tunis looks at President Kaïs Saïed’s un-democratic attempts to save Tunisia from collapse.

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