As many of you already know, the Tunisian President invited Sharon to attend the World Summit on the Information Society. Sharon accepted the invitation and he will be in Tunis in November 2005. The invitation was announced last week, I didn’t post anything about it because I was waiting for the confirmation through media. Now [...]

Click pic for enlargement… The weather has been really “unfriendly” this winter. It’s been so cold and the wind seems to be pretty strong to blow a whole ship into the beaches of Hergla (a place close to Sousse), as the picture of the stranded ship above shows. I got the picture from our friend [...]

“Der GPRS Zeitalter in Tunesien hat endlich eingebrochen! Jetzt können Kunden von Tunicell gegen eine Gebühr von 5 Dinars/Monat den MMS Service nutzen. Eine MMS bis 100 KB kostet 500 Millimes(jede MMS kostet 500 Millimes, die nicht in den 5 Dinars drin sind). Unklar ist, wie gut die GPRS Netzabdeckung ist, und wann die Kunden [...]

My dear husband thought it was about time we have a Tunis Weblogger Meetup Group, which, I believe, is a great idea, thank you MMM So, if you’re a Tunisian blogger or someone blogging from Tunisia, please do join the Tunis Weblogger Meetup Group.I know that there are many Tunisian Bloggers who live abroad, and [...]

Just a note to thank Tunisia and its people for celebrating: “la Journée mondiale de solidarité avec le peuple palestinien”: The Day of Solidarity with the people of Palestine. On this occasion, Tunisia stresses its call to the International community, for ensuring the protection of the Palestinian people, by acting immediately to put an end [...]

The Musical Club of the Faculty of Science INSAT and Mr. Tawfiq Al-Thouioui’s Musical Zone of Ariana will be throwing a musical party on Wednesday, October 27th, in INSAT- Tunis, at 21:00.All the revenues will go to ATL (Association Tunisienne de Lutte contre Les MST & le SIDA), The Tunisian Association for fighting AIDS and [...]

So we’re back in Tunis now. Vacation flew by so fast that I really don’t feel I had enough of my days off.It was great being back in the beautiful country Jordan, watching all the new places that existed after I left to Tunisia, and re-living all the great memories of places I used to [...]

Tomorrow August 13th, is an official holiday in Tunisia, it’s Woman’s Day. The streets are full of signs with “Tunisian Woman Day” and “We Respect Women”, and stuff like that. Assi Al Hillani (a famous Lebanese singer) is throwing a concert on this occasion, and I’m sure so many women’s rights organizations and activists will [...]

So today is July 1st, it might ring no bell if you’re not living neither in Tunisia nor in Canada. But if you are, then you must know that it’s Independence Day in Canada and the beginning of the summer working schedule in Tunisia, which is –in most cases- at least 3 hours less than [...]

Yesterday my husband and I went to Monastir (around 3 hours driving from Tunis) to meet my Bulgarian friend Iva. I met her while I was in Mannheim-Germany back in year 1999. Ever since then we met twice, where? In TUNISIA yes, it was so un expected for us to meet again after Germany, but [...]