Tunisia

In this podcast, I speak with Nadia from Tunisia about relationships and the perception of sex in the Arab world. What is accepted, what isn’t, and what’s hypocritical about our current societies. This is an important discussion but still surprisingly a taboo in the MENA region. Amongst the things we discuss are: virginity, independence (specifically [...]

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I have briefly written about Checkpoint 303 here when I first found out about their astounding music. It’s been my favorite band ever since. I feel no need to introduce them further, as it’s already done in detail below, so I’ll just ask you to enjoy the interview and the music sample and pictures that [...]

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As a Palestinian and an Arab I was extremely proud to see such a large contingent of athletes from the Arab World participating in this year’s Olympics. Even though they are being held in Beijing, one of the most repressive nations in the world, the Chinese people themselves have a tremendous and rich culture and [...]

Lately, tunisian blogosphere seems to like bloggers campaigns as a way to unite people and make them express their opinion about a chosen theme.
After the Blank Post Action launched on the 25th of december to protest about censorship on the internet and joined by many arab bloggers and some people from other regions, and the [...]

Dear bloggers, the League of Arab States is organizing the first Arab Youth Forum, whose objectives are allowing youth promising creative arab leaders together to allow them networking, hearing and recognizing arab youth needs and problems, and allowing them to talk directly to decision makers…                               http://www.lasyouthforum.org/index.php

First of all, for the ones who will comment [...]

I really don’t find the words! This is how we promote tolerance, peace, inter-faith, build a democracy: by well educating the future generation …
EDUCATING??? Pleeeease! This is just pure bleeding brainwashing!!

الإسلام كالمسيحية تفسدهما السياسة ويلعب القائمون عليهما بالنار إذا تخطوا حدود أماكن العبادة لأنهم يتركون مملكة الله ويدخلون مملكة الشيطان.‏.
 
Napoléon Bonaparte (during occupying Egypt & after his conversion to islam)

It’s the 1st of June, so Maghreb Union blogging day!
The Maghreb Union for me doesn’t really exist. In name it does and there is an institution called Maghreb Union, but for me it is useless and a hassle.
All the Maghreb countries are still little children fighting over their toys and pulling each others hair out. [...]

Something happened to me this week end, a very irritating “family council”.
A few weeks ago, I decided to accept a job offer in Europe, I signed a contract and I’m going there on september. This was an important decision for me, not an easy one. But I’m old enough and have some experience and I [...]

In 1989, a trade agreement for economic and political unity has been signed by Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco and Mauritania, creating which is known as the Arab Maghreb Union (UMA: Union du Maghreb Arabe).
However, nothing really interesting came out of this agreement. Summits are always blocked because of old tensions between countries, especially Morocco and [...]