Tunisian singer Sonia M’Barek performs a musical style with roots in the courts of Al-Andalus, the medieval Muslim kingdom on the Iberian Peninsula.
Anchor Marco Werman speaks with reporter Sabri Ben-Achour about a court ruling Thursday in Tunisia against the head of a TV station that broadcast the animated film “Persepolis.”
A demonstration of sorts was held on Habib Bourguiba Avenue where people literally sat on the street reading books.
One of the many things that has changed in Tunisia since the revolution is the media landscape, which enjoys a lot more freedom today.
Tunisia’s new government is now headed by the formerly-banned Islamist party called Ennahda. The government says it is focused on boosting the economy, but some worry that Ennahda says one thing while doing another.
[Interactive Graphic] The World’s coverage of the protests, demonstrations and revolutions, from the ‘Arab Spring’ to the ‘Occupy’ protests, as they happened.
Fear, in all its manifestations, played an important role in the Arab Spring revolutions in 2011.
Tunisia’s practicing Muslims have begun asserting themselves on the streets, in politics and in the media.
Technology and social media have played key roles in many of the pro-democracy movements of the Arab Spring.
The Islamic Ennahda party has the largest bloc in Tunisia’s new constitutional assembly. Critics of Ennahda worry it will change the country’s predominantly secular legal codes. Among those who could be hurt by a more conservative outlook are Tunisia’s Jews but they say they’re not worried, at least not yet.
We’re focusing on art associated with a particular North African country in today’s Geo Quiz. The country we’re looking for is the northernmost in Africa and they’ve come up with a style of painting that they call “collaborative painting”…
When the protesters in Tunisia triggered what’s become known as the Arab Spring, one of their first supporters was Barack Obama. But now many Tunisians are satirizing Obama on his Facebook page. Anchor Marco Werman speaks with Mona Kareem, of Global Voices, to hear what they’re saying and asks why.
Lisa Mullins talks with the Swiss lawyer who has been hired by the Tunisian government to recover assets from former Tunisian President Ben Ali.
Tunisian election officials are counting votes after Sunday’s election, the first free poll of the Arab Spring.
Tunisia is holding its first democratic elections since the revolution and some worry that a strong Islamist showing could roll back women’s rights in the country.
