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‘Birdy’ made in Tunis

Culture Tunis

A scene from the 1985 Alan Parker cult movie? No – Le Couffin et la Gamelle, one the very first political plays written after the Tunisian revolution.

Le couffin et la gamelle

Culture Tunis

«Le Couffin et la Gamelle» rend hommage aux prisonniers d’opinion. Cette pièce politique est l’une des premières conçues après la Révolution.

Dans la ville blanche

Le premier web-documentaire du genre au Maroc

CultureSociety Casablanca

Dans la ville blanche, un web-documentaire de Zara Samiry, nous livre des portraits de Casablancais lambda, ouled chaâb (enfants du peuple) comme on les appelle ici.

In the white city

A web documentary by Zara Samiry

CultureSociety Casablanca

Zara Samiry is a reserved 20-year-old photographer from Casablanca. Her web documentary “In the White City”, paints a portrait of the children of the people.

A metro for Gaza

Unveiling the underground

CultureRights & dissent Gaza

Underground tunnels are famous in Gaza. One artist believes they are also its future — as an underground metro.

Le printemps algérien confisqué

Rights & dissentSociety Algiers

C’est en plein automne qu’a fleuri douloureusement le premier «printemps arabe». En Octobre 1988 en Algérie. Il s’est terminé par des cris et du sang quelques années plus tard.

The Algerian spring in October

Rights & dissentSociety Algiers

It was fall when the first Arab Spring painfully blossomed. It was fall when the first Arab Spring painfully blossomed. This was in Algeria, in October 1988, and ended with bloodshed a few years later. The October Riots was probably the most significant event since the country’s independence in 1962. To this day, no political […]

Casablanca

Métropole aux mille visages

Culture Casablanca

Dans Casablanca, figures et scènes métropolitaines, on découvre 20 témoignages sur les gens et les lieux qui font la ville. Autant de facettes qui coexistent.

Casablanca

A city of a thousand faces

Culture Casablanca

In “Casablanca, People and City Scenes”, 20 people write on the people and places that make the city. A big number of facets coexist within their stories.

Egypt: Literature and revolution‏

CultureRights & dissent Cairo

Egyptian writers were part of the pre-revolutionary ferment of the past 10 years, contributing to the emergence of a discourse critical of reality.