Tunisia
Two daughters ran away to join Islamic State. Years later, their family’s story is an Oscar nominee
By Mariam Fam — February 26, 2024
(AP) — The real-life story of Hamrouni and her children is the focus of “Four Daughters,” an Academy Award nominee for best documentary feature film.
Six dead after gunman attacks Jewish pilgrimage site in Tunisia
By David I. Klein — May 10, 2023
(RNS) — The attack came as thousands of Jews had traveled to the island of Djerba for an annual pilgrimage to El Ghriba synagogue, the oldest in Africa.
Newly sanctified Tunisian cemetery for migrants filling fast
By Lori Hinnant and Mehdi El-arem — June 22, 2021
ZARZIS, Tunisia (AP) — Most of the headstones have dates but no names. Row after row of palest white, practically gleaming in the Mediterranean sun. The cemetery in Zarzis is nearly exactly as Rachid Koraïchi pictured it when he sketched his vision of the “Garden of Africa” that would be the final resting place for […]
Rare Winston Churchill paintings of historic mosque, cathedral up for auction
By Joseph Hammond — February 11, 2021
(RNS) — Paintings by the former British prime minister of St. Paul's Cathedral in London and the Koutoubia Mosque in Marrakech will be put on sale at Christie’s.
Tunisian women welcome repeal of interfaith marriage ban
By Akram Khalifa — September 28, 2017
TUNIS, Tunisia (RNS) — But Islamic conservatives aim to undo the repeal of the law, which they maintain was based on Muslim teaching.
Tunisia lifts ban on Muslim women marrying non-Muslims
By The Associated Press — September 15, 2017
(AP) — Muslim men were allowed to marry non-Muslim women, but not the other way around.
Tunisian women’s rights plan rattles Muslim traditionalists
By Jerome Socolovsky — September 15, 2017
TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — An initiative by Tunisia's president to make inheritance and marriage rules fairer to women is reverberating around the Muslim world and risks dividing his country.
How we honor Muslims who stand up to terror
By guest — July 21, 2016
WASHINGTON (RNS) Stories of Muslims facing down hate and terror, especially perpetrated by violent Islamists who claim to speak in their name, are both important to tell and more common than we realize.
Ancient Tunisian Jewish community faces uncertain future
By Yonat Shimron — June 20, 2016
HARA KBIRA, Tunisia (RNS) Djerba remains a tiny oasis of interfaith harmony and tolerance in an Arab world splintered by violence.
Key Tunisian party renounces political Islam
By Tom Heneghan — May 23, 2016
(RNS) A party congress over the weekend voted to drop Ennahda’s traditional religious work and participate in Tunisian politics as a regular political party.
British schools must root out extremists, prime minister says
By Trevor Grundy — June 30, 2015
CANTERBURY, England (RNS) Prime Minister David Cameron said he wants to wage a war aimed at making the British public “more intolerant of intolerance.”
Tunisia takes on militants, pushes back against Shariah law
By Sarah Lynch — March 31, 2014
TUNIS, Tunisia (RNS) Militancy in the Arab world is often fueled by repressive political policies; many experts say Tunisia is wisely steering away from despotic edicts that have rocked Arab Spring movements in Egypt and Libya.
Political Islam on the defensive across the Middle East
By Oren Dorell — August 20, 2013
(RNS) The conflict between secularists and Islamists is generating a new religious dialogue about the role of religion in politics, as political leaders in Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Jordan side with the Egyptian military and secularists.
Tunisians worry about loss of freedoms gained under the Arab Spring
By Elizabeth Bryant — October 5, 2012
TUNIS, TUNISIA (RNS) Increasingly, critics say, free expression -- a cornerstone of Tunisia's 2011 revolution -- is under attack. A string of incidents has fueled an intense debate about the role of religion, artistic expression and women's rights in this once staunchly secular North African country. By Elizabeth Bryant.
Middle East riots fueled by competition between radicals, moderates as new democracies emerge
By Oren Dorell — September 17, 2012
(RNS) Whether U.S. foreign policy has helped create a political environment where radicals are struggling to remain relevant, or emboldened extremists to act out, is a matter of disagreement. By Oren Dorell.
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