April 2016
Annette Steinich: Bierbrauer und Weinbauern in Katerstimmung, Neue Zurcher Zeitung, April 3, 2016:
February-March 2016
Conor McCormick-Cavanagh: A love letter to my father: The gift of reading for Tunisia’s prisoners, Middle East Eye, March 24, 2016:
““Books to Prisons,” which aims to bring as many different types of books as possible to different prisons throughout Tunisia, is the brain-child of Ben Mhenni, the writer of the renowned blog “A Tunisian Girl,” and her father Sadok. The goal is to both counter the radicalisation of inmates and to provide some enjoyment to prisoners stuck behind bars. Since the project’s launch on 11 February, Ben Mhenni has been travelling to different cultural centres, libraries and schools to present her new charity drive. Her goal is to collect 15,000 books from around the country in order to deliver them to prisons throughout Tunisia. ”
Read MoreAbout us
The North Africa Foreign Correspondents’ Club (NAFCC) is an association of professional journalists. It was set up in 2014 under the Tunisian association’s law with an office based in Tunis.
NAFCC represents the professional interests of regionally based journalists working for international media in North Africa’s countries (Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria, Libya and Egypt).
NAFCC, also, ensures that its members fulfill their reporting duties freely and independently, defending a free media and protecting journalists.
As part of its activities, the Club, regularly, invites important guests and experts, in Tunisia for meetings to chat and exchange with its members.
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The North Africa Foreign Correspondents’ Club was launched in Tunisia in early 2014. It represents the interests of journalists based in the region, working for international media.
The Club will act whenever it deems necessary, on behalf of its members to ensure that they can work freely. It regularly invites prominent guests and experts, for special sessions with its members. It also organises training sessions for its members.
The Club is a non-profit association, established under tunisian law and registered to the Official Gazette of the Republic of Tunisia on 6 november 2014.
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The club invites a prominent guest or expert for an off-the-record meeting every month. Since the NAFCC’s first meeting in January 2014, guests have included:
Meeting with Wided Bouchamaoui
2014
François Gouyette, the French ambassador to Tunisia
Hamadi Jebali, former Tunisian prime minister
Wided Bouchamaoui, president of the Tunisian Union for Industry, Commerce and Handicrafts (UTICA)
Samir Dilou, member of Ennahda and former Human Rights and Transitional Justice Minister
Jacob Kolster, director North Africa at the African Development Bank
Beji Caid Essebsi, president of Nida Tounes
Meeting with Beji Caid Essebsi
Antonio Nucifora, World Bank’s lead economist for Tunisia
Chafik Sarsar, president of the Independent higher authority for elections
Michael Béchir Ayari, International Crisis Group’s senior Tunisia analyst
2015
Amine Ghali, director of Kawakibi center for democratic transition
Hamish Cowell and Michael Aron, British ambassadors to Tunisia and Libya
Flavien Bourrat, researcher at IRSEM, defence expert
Mohsen Marzouk, advisor of the president Béji Caied Essebsi
Bob Rijkers, World Bank expert
Rafaa Tabib, Libya expert
Sergio Latouna, Researcher & consultant specialized in political islam & jihadist movements in the Maghreb, at Instituto de Seguridad Global.
Maxime Poulin, Security Analyst at DCAF
2016
Daniel Rubinstein, US ambassador to Tunisia
Bochra Belhaj Hmida, MP
Ziad Laadhari, minister of Industry and Trade
Yassine Brahim, president of Afek Tounes and former minister
Karim Ben Smail, Cérès Editions
Hichem Ben Ammar, founder of Djerba Doc Days
Mourad Mathari, Jazz à Carthage
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