A Jewish pilgrimage to the oldest synagogue in Africa on Tunisia's Djerba Island began under tight security after it was canceled last year following the revolution. 512
Read More »The trial of a Nessma television station director Nabil Karoui accused of insulting sacred values for having screened the Franco-Iranian film "Persepolis" resumed in Tunisia under tight security. The 522
Read More »Despite protests for his lawyers and human right groups Tunisia extradited Muammar Qadhafi's former prime minister Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi to Libya. Mahmoudi fled to Tunisia last September shortly after 531
Read More »Administrative Reform Minister Mohammed Abbou of Tunisia resigned accusing the government of failing to do enough to overhaul the public sector and root out corruption. 532
Read More »In an interview published in French daily Le Parisien, Leila Ben-Ali, the wife of former Tunisian dictator Zine el Abidine Ben Ali, said they were ready to face trial back home but conditions for a fa 533
Read More »Tunisia's tourism minister Elyes Fakhfakh said that the annual Jewish pilgrimage to the Tunisian island of Djerba should be maintained as a symbol of the North African nation's openness to the world. 550
Read More »The head of Tunisia's ruling Islamist party, Rached Ghannouchi said that the Arab Spring provided an opportunity to reconcile Arabic public opinion with the West. 552
Read More »Tunisia banned protests planned by hardline Islamists demanding a more religious state following the worst unrest since the 2011 uprising. 562
Read More »A Tunisian court slapped a small fine on the owner of the private Nessma television station Nabil Karoui for undermining morality and public order by screening the film “Persepolis”, which showed 564
Read More »Staff at two Tunisian newspapers, the French-language daily Le Temps and Arabic-language Essabah, held a day-long strike protesting an alleged government clampdown on freedom of expression. 456
Read More »Tunisia’s governing moderate Islamist party condemned an attack on the US embassy in Tunis and the neighbouring American school, saying such violence threatens the country’s progress towards democ 475
Read More »In her biography My Truth""launched in France, Leila Ben Ali, wife of deposed Tunisian dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, says a plot by top security officials ended his long rule. 488
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