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A police car is parked near Ghriba synagogue in Djerba, Tunisia, May 10, 2023.

An attack at Africa’s oldest synagogue leaves Jews on a pilgrimage in Tunisia concerned

Religion

The Ghriba synagogue is the oldest in Africa and is the destination for an annual Jewish pilgrimage on the island of Djerba. The World’s Marco Werman spoke with Daniel Lee, a historian of the Jews of France and North Africa at Queen Mary University of London, about the ancient house of worship and an attack there on Tuesday.

Tunisian President Kais Saied delivers a speech during his visit to Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia

Some supporters of Tunisia’s president just want stability in the country, analyst says

Leaders
Tunisian protesters demonstrate beneath a poster of Mohamed Bouazizi near the prime minister's office in Tunis, Tunisia, Jan. 28, 2011.

Fruit seller Mohamed Bouazizi’s protest inspired the Arab uprisings. A decade later, his sister still mourns.

Global Politics
Empty sun beds on an empty beach with blue sky

Tourism in Tunisia reopens — with precautions

Business, Economics and Jobs
tunisia

In Tunisia, preserving tradition in the last underground homes

Lifestyle
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Women in Tunisia wary of surge in Islamist power, fearful of losing their rights

With elections in Tunisia slated for Sunday, women and moderates are worried that surging Islamist parties will roll back the liberal policies that have set Tunisia apart from the rest of the Arab states.

Tunisian fishermen try on life jackets offered by MSF at the end of the training. The fishermen say in general they lack the equipment to cope with boatloads of migrants and refugees in distress.

Tunisian fishermen are trained to be ‘safety nets’ for migrants making a deadly sea crossing

Global Politics

Tunisian fishermen near the border with Libya are learning to be a safety net of sorts for migrants and refugees on the Mediterranean

Fatima Elahmer and her three children, Mohamed, Anoud, and Ali. They've been living in Tunis since last summer.

Looking to escape turmoil back home, a Libyan family waits it out in Tunis

Conflict

With Libya deep in its second civil war, many Libyans are holing up across the border in Tunisia

Lawyers at a protest in Tunis against extremism on March 19, 2015, a day after gunmen killed more than 20 people in the Tunisian capital.

‘Tunisians are in shock’ after a massacre in Tunis

Conflict

Two gunmen killed more than 20 people in Tunisia on Wednesday, shocking the country that many people have called the Arab Spring’s only meaningful success story. And while most of the dead were tourists, a Tunisian journalist says locals are feeling the deaths strongly.

Supporters of Beji Caid Essebsi, the Nidaa Tounes party leader and presidential candidate, wave flags and shout slogans during a presidential electoral campaign rally in Tunis on November 15, 2014.

Tunisia looks set to move forward by electing a figure from its past

Global Politics

One of Tunisia’s presidential candidates is getting an unexpected rock star treatment: 87-year-old Beji Caid Essebsi, a longtime politician who’s built in the mold of Tunisia’s first president and other old-guarders. But some youth believe he’s the only candidate who’s serious about their concerns.

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