Tunisia’s oldest and most popular football team L’Esperance was gearing up for a match against CS Sfax at the end of the week, when the interior ministry spontaneously postponed the event, citing concerns about the nation’s security situation.  Tunisia’s oldest and most popular football team L’Esperance was gearing up for a match against CS Sfax […]

It is five o’clock in the afternoon in the coastal city of Sousse, one of the favourite destinations of tourists flocking to Tunisia. A unique restaurant is making preparations for the evening clientele, most of whom will be bearded men and veiled women.  It is five o’clock in the afternoon in the coastal city of […]

The Constituent Assembly’s Finance, Planning and Development Committee, recently created considerable controversy when it decided to revive the Islamic Endowments Law discussing it within the framework of the committee’s work, approving it and submitting it to the general session to pass it.  The Constituent Assembly’s Finance, Planning and Development Committee, recently created considerable controversy when […]

With tempers flaring and the ruling Ennahda Movement experiencing volcanic eruptions within the party, members have been resigning in record numbers.    Sahbi Atiq, a leading member of the Ennahda Movement and the head of its parliamentary bloc, said that his party still maintains its leading position despite being negatively affected by the way it […]

When businessman Bahri Jelassi recently claimed that a number of MPs offered to sell themselves to his business colleagues who also head political parties, it rocked the pillars of the Constituent Assembly. Jelassi said he got his share of seats (offered for sale) after eight months of negotiations. When businessman Bahri Jelassi recently claimed that […]

Thirteen-year-old Fatima lowers her head while she talks about her lost dream: “I wanted to become a doctor but now it is impossible.”  She put a bag full of grass as a fodder for her sheep and said in a shaky voice, “I left school two years ago and today I am helping my mother […]

Abdelhamid Jelassi, vice-president of the Ennahda movement has, like most members of his party, has insisted that the movement is open to dialogue and also prepared to lose seats in the coming elections. Yet he also claims that the experienced leadership of Rachid Ghannouchi is exempary and important to the tumultuous transition period.  Abdelhamid Jelassi, vice-president […]

Late last week, the Department of Information, a division of the presidency, issued a book under the title “The Propaganda System of Ben Ali’s Rule.” The book has sparked mixed reactions among the Tunisian people, as it contains a list of journalists who collaborated with the former regime as well as a list of activists and […]

With chiseled features and a broad face, Fatima Maleh always looked different from other girls. She felt different too— she never dreamed of a knight in shining armor taking her away on a white horse. She also never dreamed of becoming a mother. Fatima instead, preferred to play football with other young boys. “I was […]

Lubna Jribi, a Politburo member and a member of the National Constituent Assembly for the leftist liberal Ettakatol party believes that the disintegrating national dialogue has clearly revealed the last remaining defects long unknown about the troika. Jibri says the ruling coalition has become an arm-twisting game between the partners in power. Ettakatol considers itself […]