October 2018
Ulf Laessing : Pasta and petrol: smuggling crackdown stirs dissent in Tunisia’s south, Reuters, october,29, 2018:
Tunisian Zubair Abdel-Moula lost his work selling smuggled fuel on the streets of a poor southern town after the government tightened controls with Libya to stop militants crossing the 460km (286 miles) border.
September 2018
Massinissa Benlakehal: Tunisia’s Kerkennah Islands: A land for smuggling, The New Arab, September, 27, 2018:
As Libya’s shores sees tightened controls, Tunisia’s Kerkennah Islands has become the new route for migrants trying to make the crossing to Europe in the past year.
April 2018
Ricard Gonzalez: La Túnez marginada, escéptica con la descentralización, El Pais, April, 27, 2018:
La apatía domina la campaña electoral de las municipales en Gafsa, bastión de la izquierda
February 2018
Aleksei Merkulov: Tunisia seeks strategic partnership with Russia — minister, Tass, February, 27, 2018:
Relations between Tunisia and Russia are very friendly, and there are good prospects for developing and strengthening them, Tunisian Minister of Tourism and Handicrafts Salma Elloumi Rekik told TASS on Tuesday in the run-up to her working visit to Moscow.
November 2017
Carlotta Gall: “I Could Not Forget What Happened to Me That Night With Him”, The New York Times, November 3, 2017:
“The Facebook post, coming shortly after the terrorist attack by Islamist extremists at the Bataclan concert hall in Paris in November 2015, fell like a bombshell in the febrile atmosphere in France.
Henda Ayari, a French citizen of North African parentage, posted two photographs of herself — one in a full black Islamic veil, the other in a tight jacket and T-shirt, bareheaded — and wrote a bitter denunciation of Salafism and its encouragement of violent jihad among young French Muslims.”