Tag: Culture

Tunisia’s mythical Ecovillage will once again host Fairground Festival as it descends on Sousse for its second edition, 13-15 July. Enriching the experience from all sides, the 2017 edition will feature increases in virtually every aspect of the festival, particularly within the realms of art and music. Visual and sound art will be offered in the open air, while DJs lay the soundtrack to a completely immersive experience, filled with activities, workshops and events. Of course, some of the world best DJs will be on hand to guide festivities. Amongst…

Hollywood movie Wonder Woman has been banned in Tunisia due to the leading actress’ Israeli heritage. The film was pulled before the first screenings on June 8 after a lawsuit called Gail Gadot a ‘champion Zionist.’ Tunisia joins Lebanon and Algeria in banning the film due to Gadot’s Israeli heritage and past links to the country’s military. The Tunisian Association of Young Lawyers put forward the lawsuit. The Tunisian courthouse has halted release of the film while it examines the lawsuit, reports the Jerusalem Post. Following the decision, screenings of the…

The sculpture ‘Mare Nostrum’ by Italian architect Girolamo Palmizi has been installed on the quayside between Nabeul and Hammamet. The work is intended to be a symbolic bridge between Tunisia and Sicily and is twinned with a work by the same artist on the northern shore of the Mediterranean in Biscione between the Sicilian coastal towns of Marsala and Mazara del Vallo, where it won the 2015 international prize “Oasi d’arte – Art’s Oasis”. Palmizi recently led a ceramics workshop for students from the school of arts and crafts in…

Italy’s Rome Lazio Film Commission, the Spain Film Commission, France’s Ile-de-France, the film commissions of Andalucia and Tangiers and the Carthage Film Festival have joined forces to set up the Euro-Mediterranean Audiovisual Center in a pact that aims to foster stronger film industry ties among Mediterranean countries. The pact, inked in Cannes, was spearheaded by Lazio Film Commission president Luciano Sovena who has long been building cinematic collaboration between Italy and North African territories. “Having Spain and France come on board is a game changer,” Sovena said, noting that France…

n January 2017, the Arab Cinema Center (ACC) in Egypt announced it would launch the Critics Awards at the highly respected Cannes Film Festival. The proceedings, which took place this week, were the end-result of the deliberations of a 24-member strong jury process of film critics, representing 15 countries, nine of them Arab. This is the first time a pan-Arab award—and one exclusively for Arab cinema, no less—has been given-out at a platform this prestigious. To qualify, films had to debut at international film festivals outside the Arab world, be…

Expansive project allows users to explore more than 6,000 songs from famed ethnomusicologist’s collection Before his 2002 death, ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax spent decades recording and archiving the world’s traditional music. Now the organization he founded, the Association for Cultural Equity, is aiming to continue his research with a newly established online database, The Global Jukebox, The New York Times reports. The free site features 6,000 digitized songs from over 1,000 cultures, including recordings from Lomax’s own collection. Upon visiting The Global Jukebox, users can navigate a massive world map categorized…

A techno music festival will be held on April 29-30 amid the ancient ruins of the city of Dougga (formerly Thugga), in north-west Tunisia, a UNESCO world heritage site. The ”Dougga Fest – Sound of Stones” is organized by the international festival association of Dougga, with the patronage of the Culture Ministry and the support of the Tunisian Tourism Ministry. Organizers say the event vies to promote the north-west area of Tunisia, the archaeological site and city of Dougga while safeguarding the environment. It also aims to create jobs for…

 The Bardo museum in Tunis will host an exhibit on pre-Roman antiquities that are part of the Uffizi’s collection – a way to boost the cultural ties between Tuscany and Tunisia and most of all relaunch the museum after the March 18, 2015 terror attack. The announcement was made by the deputy president of the Tuscany region, Monica Barni, who visited Tunisia at the beginning of April. The date has not been set yet but it will be by the end of the year. Tuscany, explained Barni, is among few…

Chairman of National Human Rights Committee (NHRC) Dr Ali bin Sumaikh al-Marri said yesterday that the Arabic calligraphy exhibition on human rights in Islamic culture included a wide range of art work that showed the link between Islam and the universal declaration of human rights as well as other international accords on the issue. The exhibition was organised by the NHRC on the sidelines of the 34th meeting of the of Arab Interior Ministers Council in Tunisia. The goal of the exhibition was to emphasise the commitment to advance human…