In a rather low-key, overlooked way, the Tunisian Minister of Culture, Mourad Sakli, has announced yesterday on a radio program on Jawhara FM that the ministry plans on privatizing Tunisian heritage sites. The plan is to have private companies lease the sites for periods of 25 to 30 years.
The deposition of former Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi: call it what you like – a popular uprising, a military coup, a continuation of the “Arab Spring”, or a hammer blow to democratic reform efforts. Whatever it was, Tunisia is certainly not immune to it.
Today, we are confronting what we could credibly call a ‘crisis.’ An identity crisis, a socioeconomic crisis, and most of all, a daily, practical crisis.
Le 1 août dernier a eu lieu, au sein de la commission des droits et libertés de l’ANC, un vote sur des la protection des droits de la femme. Une protection édictée en des termes ambigues puisque la femme y est décrite comme « la partenaire de l’homme ».
On August 1, 2012, the Tunisian committee on rights and liberties – one of the constitutional committees charged with drafted different chapter in the Tunisian constitution – voted in controversial new language that promises to protect women’s rights as “man’s partner.”
« Derrière ces troubles en Tunisie se trouvent des criminels, des trafiquants de drogue et des extrémistes salafistes », c’est ce qu’a déclaré ce mardi à l’ANC, Ali Larayedh, le ministre de l’Intérieur. M. Larayedh a été invité à s’exprimer devant l’Assemblée…
“Criminals, drug traffickers, and Salafist extremists are the ones behind the unrest,” Ali Laraayedh, the Tunisian Minister of the Interior, told the Constituent Assembly on Tuesday. The minister was invited to speak to the assembly and answer its questions
Le 4 Juin, les membres du groupe OpenGovTN (une initiative qui vise à institutionnaliser la transparence dans la Tunisie nouvelle) ont rencontré Karima Souid, la représentante de l’information et de communication officielle de l’Assemblée constituante.
On June 4th, members of the OpenGovTN group (an initiative that works to institutionalize transparency in the new Tunisia) met with the information and communication official in the Constituent Assembly, representative Karima Souid.
It all started 3 months ago in the Constituent Assembly’s Finance Committee. One Constituent Assembly member, who does not sit on the committee, anonymously confided to me: “It was one of the first things they discussed.”
Passer presque toutes mes journées au sein de l’Assemblée constituante au cours du mois passé ne m’a pas vraiment permis, contrairement à ce que peuvent penser les gens, à obtenir des documents importants afin de les transmettre au public.
Being at the Constituent Assembly nearly everyday for the past month or so has not, contrary to what people may think, helped me get most important documents out to the public. Until this day, there is no systemic way of accessing crucial information on committee work
Jeudi dernier, la session matinale de la séance plenière devait en effet traiter des dossiers des martyrs. Pourtant, en raison des événements du 9 avril et des tensions qu’ils ont causé, la conversation a vite tournée à un débat rhétorique.
اصدر المكتب السياسي لحزب المؤتمر من اجل الجمهورية بيانا جاء فيه استياء و استغراب هؤلاء من التصريح الاخير الذي ادلى به الامين العام عبد الرؤوف العيادي بمناسبة مؤتمر حزب القوات اللبنانية. المؤتمر اعلن تبرئه مما جاء على لسان امينه العام مؤكدا انه متعارض مع الخط السياسي للحزب الشيء الذي انجر عنه اقالة هذا .الاخير من طرف المكتب السياسي
The delicate social climate in most inner regions of Tunisia is a reminder of the tension that unemployment has created over the years. Gafsa, home to one of the largest employment producing companies in the region, the Gafsa Phosphate Company (Compagnie des Phosphates de Gafsa, CPG)
A tool that has been used and abused by the former regime’s propaganda teams. Information in Tunisia is described as centralized and monopolized by a few media outlets that are usually headquartered in the capital, Tunis. One initiative however, spearheaded by Nawaat jointly […]
The dome shaped room was a sea of red and white. It smelled of amber musk and sea. The attendees were mostly well over the age of 40, and the buzz of excitement was impossible to miss. You would think you were attending a Michael Jackson concert. […]
In an effort to increase the level of Tunisian participation in wiki-media, a workshop was held on Saturday, March 17, at Nawaat’s “Hackerspace” – a space designed to hold community events – to discuss the concept of wiki-media. The workshop was led by Yamen Bousrih, a young Tunisian cyber-activist.
