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Tunisia's institutional crisis

Unfortunately, politics is still at a pastoral stage in Tunisia writes Soufiane Ben Farhat in la Presse de Tunisie. The politics is too deeply permeated with the archaisms. The crisis of the trade...

The Battle for the Future of Tunisia

Almost two years after the Arab Spring started in Tunisia, Salafists are intimidating women, artists and intellectuals. Many fear that the government is tacitly supporting the radical Islamists in...

Attack Brings Renewed Strength for Hamas

The Islamist party Hamas had been losing support as a result of economic difficulties and factional fighting. Today Hamas is popular again, heralded for its retaliation in Israel’s latest military...

Tunisian Businessman Tarek Ben Ammar wants to launch a media project in Morocco

Tarek Ben Ammar is a producer and distributor of films,a wealthy Tunisian businessman, nephew of Wassila Bourguiba, wife of former Tunisian president Habib Bourguiba....

Egypt crisis: continuing clashes in Cairo

Thousands of anti Morsi protestors marched on the presidential palace in Cairo after rejecting a call for dialogue by President Mohammed Morsi on Friday. They breached a barbed wire fence and ran...

Suède : La bulle Polisario fait Pschitt

Stockholm : «La Suède juge que la République autoproclamée par le Polisario ne remplit aucun des attributs de reconnaissance, à savoir un territoire, un peuple et une autorité effective». La...

Islamist Vigilantes Begin to Police Egypt

As Egyptians debate how deeply Sharia should influence the new constitution, and in the face of clashes that left five dead on Wednesday, some extremists have taken to the streets to enforce their...

The Tunisian artist Meryem Bouderbala and their "creative audacity" to GVCC

The body otherwise, the creative body, the body which breaks certain social codes .. here are some of the characteristics of the exhibition of the Tunisian artist, Meryem Bouderbala, which takes...

‘Oxford Bookstores’ ouvre une bibliothèque à Marrakech

Marrakech : La nouvelle librairie sera située dans l’enceinte du nouveau palace marrakchi, l’indo-marocain Taj Palace. Le groupe indien Oxford Bookstores lance aujourd’hui vendredi 7 décembre, à la...

Morocco launches port strategy in 2030 with a budget of $ 7 billion

In the presence of King Mohammed VI, the Minister of Equipment and Transport, Aziz Rebbah, presented the strategy port of Morocco in 2030, with a total budget of 60 billion dirhams ($ 7 billion )....

UK MEA trade delegation in Tripoli led by British Minister Kenneth Clarke

British cabinet minister Ken Clarke led a trade mission by the London-based Middle East Association. With some 22 companies and organisations covering a number of sectors including education,...

Egypt crisis: Clashes in Cairo continue

Pro and anti Morsi protesters clashed outside the presidential palace in Cairo, as unrest grows over the draft constitution and the referendum scheduled for 15 December. Petrol bombs were thrown and...

OP-ED: Egypt, Arab Sunni Politics, and the U.S.: A Problematic Road Ahead

The bad news about Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi’s expanding constitutional powers is the threat of another dictatorship in Egypt. The good news is that normal politics is returning to Egypt after...

Marrakech : Des stars de Bollywood à l’inauguration d’un nouveau Palace de luxe

Marrakech : Une nombreuse délégation de stars indiennes de Bollywood est à la ville, invitée à l’édition 2012 du FIFM, rendant hommage cette année au cinéma indien fêtant son centenaire. L’homme...

Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan attacked in Beida

Prime Minister Ali Zeidan was attacked by a local militia in Beida yesterday, Tuesday, during an ongoing tour of eastern Libya.Members of the Ali Hassan Al-Jaber brigade stormed the building in which...

Algiers - 4th International Cultural Festival of Symphonic Music (ICFSM)

- The fourth international festival of symphonic music will be held from December 6 to 12 current National Theatre Mahieddine Bachtarzi (Algiers) with the participation of 23 countries. Each evening...

Despite Growing Violence, Syrian Political Equation Unchanged

As Syria descends further into civil war, the Barack Obama administration has struggled to balance its support for anti-Assad groups with its concerns that the opposition leadership – including the...

France - Chad: Idriss Deby in Paris for three days of official visit

Chadian President Idriss Deby, arrived in Paris Tuesday, December 4. He will be received the next day by his counterpart Francois Hollande as president. The program for this presidential meeting...

Tunisia arrests Salafist suspects over Sufi shrine attack

Tunisian authorities arrested five Salafist suspects on Monday in connection with an arson attack against one of the country’s main Sufi shrines,the Saida Manoubia zawiya located in the western La...

The $ 1 billion Morocco bond well rated by international agencies

The international tour which began on 26 November ends today, in the biggest international financial markets, financial Moroccan authorities are negotiating the international bond issue, launched...