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Tunisian Couscous: A Family Tradition

Faten Bouraoui — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 08:30:30 +0000

Couscous is a North African dish traditionally served with meat, vegetables and spices. It’s a staple dish in Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, and Western Libya, having Amazigh (Berber) origins. Its popularity stretches into Egypt, the Middle East, and Europe as well. Couscous is Tunisia’s unofficial national dish. But it’s more than just a staple food: for [...]

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Lose Yourself in the Souks of the Tunis Medina

Faten Bouraoui — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 20:48:58 +0000

Hafeth Blayech spends his days much like his father, and his grandfather did. In his small workshop in a narrow alleyway of the Medina, the old town of Tunis, he rubs red felt with a large metal brush until he is covered in small flecks of red wool. Blayech is a maker of chechias – [...]

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Two Tunisian Scientists Awarded UNESCO-L’Oréal International Fellowship for Women

Faten Bouraoui — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 14:00:30 +0000

Two Tunisian scientists – Dr. Mounira Hmani-Aifa and Emna Harigua - have recently been selected for the UNESCO-L’Oréal International Fellowship Program for Young Women in Life Sciences. Each year UNESCO-L’Oréal International provides grants to female researchers from around the world who have distinguished themselves through their contributions to science. This year, the awards will be presented on March [...]

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Tunisian Lawyer Wins Arab Human Rights Award

Faten Bouraoui — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 13:56:39 +0000

Tunisian Lawyer Radhia Nasraoui has been awarded the Kamal Joumblatt Prize for Human Rights in the Arab World by the Friends of Kamal Joumblatt Association. The award was announced and presented to the winner on March 16, 2012 – the anniversary of the death of Kamal Joumblatt. Nasraoui asserted that she is very proud to have [...]

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Project Launched to Rehabilitate Working-Class Neighborhoods

Faten Bouraoui — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 13:04:51 +0000

The Tunisian government has announced an initiative to rehabilitate 73 low-income neighborhoods located in Tunis and in other regions of the country. Thus far 267 million Tunisian Dinars – or $177 million USD – have been allocated to the project. According to Lotfi Chatti, the press attache of the Ministry of Equipment and Housing, almost 39 [...]

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Medical Caravan Embarks to Treat Underprivileged Children in Northwestern Tunisia

Faten Bouraoui — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 13:23:30 +0000

“Un Enfant, Des Sourires” (UEDS – or One Child, Many Smiles), a non-profit organization dedicated to addressing the needs of disadvantaged children, will organize a caravan to provide medical supplies and treatment to children attending three rural schools in Ain Dhrahem. This initiative, entitled “Inshallah Labess“ – “God willing everything will be alright” in Tunisian Arabic – will embark on the road to Ain Dhrahem in [...]

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Punic Artifact Depot Discovered in a House in Carthage

Faten Bouraoui — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 16:15:44 +0000

Thousands of historical artifacts were discovered in the house of a French national living in Carthage, a suburb in the North of Tunis. Upon notification by the police, the Administration of Antiquities searched the home to find 481 boxes containing archeological pieces dating back to Punic times.The National Heritage Institute seized the pieces after an [...]

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Tunisian Prime Minister to Visit Saudi Arabia on Saturday

Faten Bouraoui — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 14:21:33 +0000

Tunisian Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali will pay a two-day visit to Saudi Arabia later this week, where he is scheduled to meet with a number of key Saudi leaders. Officials said that the visit was planned in response to a formal invitation sent in January by the Saudi ambassador to Tunisia, Khaled Ben Al Moussaed Ankari. [...]

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Discovery of a Roman Cemetery in Djerba

Faten Bouraoui — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:12:09 +0000

A chance discovery of around 100 Roman graves was made recently near el Kantara on the island of Djerba. Employees working for the STEG (Tunisian Society of Electricity and Gas) as well as employees from the Ministry of Equipment and Housing uncovered the graves while they were carrying out work in the region. An [...]

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Four Dead in Ain Draham Due to Heavy Snowfall

Faten Bouraoui — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:56:28 +0000

In spite of recent measures undertaken by the government to deliver aid to those suffering from the severe cold wave, which has descended on Tunisia’s isolated northwestern regions, four patients died at the Ain Draham hospital yesterday night because of the isolation in which the hospital now finds itself due to high levels of snowfall. [...]

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