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New Programme The Tunisia Exchange

The Exchange is an effort by Mideastwire.com and its partners to promote engagement and understanding through a variety of city-focused, student conferences in and around the Middle East....

Egyptian Presidential Race Gets Underway

Just two months after it completed a long season of parliamentary elections, Egypt is gearing up for a presidential vote. Registration for...

Different views of democratic change in Tunisia.

Last week salafists protesting in Manouba University caused concern by replacing the Tunisian flag with their own Black islamic flag.The President Moncef Marzouki and many Tunisians criticised this...

Sonatrach reaches amicable agreement with the U.S. group Anadarko and Maersk of Denmark.

The National Hydrocarbons Company Sonatrach reached an amicable agreement with Anadarko Algeria Company American groups and Maersk Olie Algeri (Denmark) in their dispute over a tax that should pay...

Algerian British trade volume increases by 96% in a year

The volume of trade between Algeria and Britain increased by 96% in 2011 compared to 2010, according to statistics provided by the Algerian Embassy in Britain, APS reports....

Facebook and Twitter in Morocco: key figures

The third edition of the Arab Social Report has painted a picture of the influence of social media in the Arab world, and in the case of Morocco between January and October 2011 (period corresponding...

Said Sadi officially resigns as President of the RCD

Over twenty years after taking the controls of the Rally for Culture and Democracy (RCD), Dr Said Sadi officially resigned from the presidency of the party on Friday....

Tourism prospects in 2012

Taleb Rifai secretary general of the UN World Tourism Organisation (UNTWO) said in an interview with Reuters at ITB travel fair in Berlin that there seemed to be no quick revival prospects for...

Morocco adopts annual summer time

Clocks in Morocco will go forward one hour on Friday 30 March for energy saving measures during summer time. This measure will not apply during Ramadan because of fasting periods and night prayers....

The President of Niger receives British PM's Security adviser.

The President of the Republic, Mahamadou Issoufou, yesterday received a delegation led by Major General Robin Searby (retd), Special Adviser to the British Prime Minister on the fight against...

The calligraphy of the artist Smail Metmati and the Amazigh Tifinagh alphabet.

The Algerian artist Smail Metmati has successfully used the Amazigh alphabet, Tifinagh in his art as calligraphy. He exhibits from Wednesday at the Moufdi-Zakaria Palace of Culture, with a hundred of...

Urban Development: US - Moroccan talks in Chicago

The Moroccan Minister of Housing,Spatial Planning and Urban Policy, Nabil Benabdallah and the Mayor of Casablanca, Mohamed Sajid, held talks on Thursday in Chicago, with the Mayor of the city and...

President Abdullah Gül on official visit to Tunisia

President Gull was received at Tunis airport by President Moncef Marzouki, President of the Constituent Assembly Mustapha Ben Jafar and Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali on Wednesday when he began a three...

Apple releases its 'New iPad'

Subject to speculation for months about its name or its characteristics, the suspense was broken yesterday by the presentation by Apple's latest creation soberly called the 'New iPad'....

Resumption of the NGOs trial in Cairo

The trial of members of non-governmental organizations (NGOs), accused of financing illegal and illicit activities, resumes on Thursday in Cairo of Egypt after the departure of 13 foreign defendants....

Morocco's autonomy proposal best plan for Western Sahara: Alain Juppé

The French Foreign Minister backs Morocco proposal to solve Sahara political crisis, believes plan is realistic and forms credible basis for solution.Morocco's plan for granting the disputed...

12th March: Education and Training in the Mena region.

"Building the Knowledge Economy": Education & Training in the MENA Region’, Monday 12th March, BIS Conference Centre, 1 Victoria, Street, London SW1...

Morocco and Tunisia's textiles sectors expand

Textile manufacturers in Morocco and Tunisia sell different products on different markets. But they have one thing in common: the need to bring more value added to their offer to try and resist the...

East Libya leaders declare autonomy

Tribal and political leaders declared Libya’s oil-rich eastern region of Cyrenaica as autonomous on Tuesday, raising fears the country may break up in the wake of Moammer Gaddafi’s downfall....

"Cinema and the Arab Spring" on the menu at the Tétouan Festival of Mediterranean Film

The 18th International Festival of Mediterranean Film Tétouan (Northern Morocco, 24-31 March) proposes, for this year's event, a special program on "Cinema and the Arab Spring", the organizers of...