The German parliament’s lower house approved on Friday a contentious law to limit asylum applications from Georgia and three Maghreb countries Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia, Reuters reports. Some 509...

Rail, bus and air traffic stopped in Tunisia today as the powerful Tunisian General Labour Union (UGTT) staged a one-day nationwide strike to protest against the government’s refusal to...

A German court ruled on Wednesday that a suspected Islamist militant who was deported to Tunisia in July must not be returned to Germany, saying it no longer believed...

Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi is facing a lawsuit which accuses him of exceeding his powers by granting an amnesty to a high-profile prisoner in contravention of the country’s...

Tunisian Tourism Minister Rene Trabelsi has described the issue of diplomatic normalization with Israel as a “sensitive matter”. Trabelsi, a Jewish Tunisian businessman who was recently given the government’s...

Tunisia’s President Beji Caid Essebsi warned on Monday that the country’s democratic experience is not in a safe situation, Anadolu has reported. He also warned of the risks of...

Supporters of Nahda Movement attend a rally marking the eighth anniversary of "Arab Spring" at Habib Burgiba Street in the capital Tunis

Remembering the Jasmine revolution in Tunisia 8 years on

They've called on democratic and civil society organisations in Tunisia to join the BDS movement

Tunisia has passed the death sentence on 41 terrorists found guilty of an attack that killed 15 soldiers in June, 2014. The attack took place in the Mount Chaambi...

The leader of Tunisia’s Ennahda Party has said that the movement will participate in this year’s presidential elections, Anadolu has reported. Rached Ghannouchi insisted, though, that he is not...

Tunisia’s Ennahda movement said on Thursday that a “consensus solution” between the government and the Tunisian General Labour Union is still possible to avoid a general strike. This sentiment...

Israel is seeking hundreds of billions of dollars in compensation from Middle Eastern countries where Jewish people fled or were expelled from. The Jewish state has hired an unnamed...

Ennahda spokesman, Emad Al-Khemiri, denied that Sheikh Rached Ghannouchi is the nominated candidate of the movement for the presidential elections expected in November. Al-Khemiri told Al-Mugtama Magazine on Monday evening...

The prospective American peace deal, dubbed as the “deal of the century”, is to include that $250 billion be paid by Arab states in compensation for Jewish property left...

Italy has recorded an 80 per cent drop off immigrants reaching its costs compared to 2017. The number of clandestine immigrants arriving in Europe in 2018 fell by 92...

It was the first concert of the year for the Tunisian Symphony Orchestra on the first day of 2019!

The last seven days in the Middle East...

Hamma Hammami, Secretary-General of The Workers’ Party, said that the recent protests in the country “need a new political vision and a goal that unites them within one struggle,...

Sudan’s President, Omar Al-Bashir, ridiculed the Sudanese opposition parties after announcing their participation in the protests that have been taking place in the country since the 19th of last...

At least two militants were killed on Thursday in an exchange of fire with police in central Tunisia’s Jilma city in the Sidi Bouzid province, the Ministry of Interior...

Teachers in Tunisia resumed on Wednesday their protests after the winter break to demand an increase in financial benefits, as well as other professional demands and restructuring the education...

Tunisia’s President described 2019 on Monday evening as “a decisive and electoral year par excellence.” Beji Caid Essebsi added that 2018 had been “tough” in a televised New Year...

The UN Refugee Agency on Monday called on Member States to “urgently offer safe ports” to two vessels carrying 49 migrants rescued from the Mediterranean, reports Anadolu Agency. “UNHCR...

On Christmas eve, Christians gathered in a church in Tunis for Midnight Mass...

Take a trip through the Middle East and see what's been happening for the past 7 days...

Syrians welcomed tourists with Tunisian and Syrian flags, and a lot of dancing

A march in the Tunisian city of Jebiniana was held yesterday in protest against security forces’ excessive use of violence against protesters. This came after clashes erupted between protests...

People attend a Christmas Eve mass at the Cathedral of Saint Vincent de Paul in Tunis

Former US Ambassador to Tunisia Jacob Walles has denied media reports claiming he accused the Muslim Brotherhood of sponsoring terrorism and Tunisia’s Muslim Brotherhood group of exporting terrorism to...

The pandemic of extremism is an issue all too familiar to a 21st century audience. Although droves of impressionable, misguided young people leave everything behind to join groups such...

The World Bank said yesterday that the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region needs to create 300 million new jobs by 2050. Vice President for MENA at the...