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Algeria arguably ranks among top authoritarian states adamant on keeping the international media away. Requests for visas by leading Western media, including the BBC and the New York Times, go unanswered for years.
Tuesday 11/05/2021 Deserted dowtown Tunis, amid a general confinement imposed by the authorities in a bid to slow down a surge in coronavirus infections. (AFP) The contrasting interaction between the two main characters is the driving theme of the traditional Turkish shadow play of Karagoz, which Tunisians will know because it was very much part of the culture of the Ottoman empire shared by the North African country for more than three centuries until the French “protectorate” in 1881. The characters are perfect foils for each other: in the Turkish version, Karagoz represents the illiter...