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Student union at heart of protests rocking Tunisia Warda Atiq, the secretary-general of L'Union générale des étudiants de Tunisie (UGET), told University World News that 50 members of UGET have been arrested and 32 remain in pre-trial detention. The first arrest was of Kais Schneiter, UGET’s representative in the southern region of Medenine, in mid-January, as protests sparked by alleged police brutality, economic woes and COVID-19 lockdowns gathered steam. UGET activist Ghafran Sfar told University World News that police “used psychological pressure” against Schneiter, “threate...

Text size Tunisia is struggling to protect North Africa's Jewish heritage, threatened by vandalism, looting and the smuggling of valuable artefacts bearing witness to the long history of the region's Jews. While many of Tunisia's own synagogues and Jewish graveyards lie neglected, the country has also become a conduit for antiques pillaged in lawless neighbouring Libya. "A huge number of antiques have been looted in Libya, and people are trying to smuggle them to Europe," said Habib Kazdaghli, a historian at Tunisia's Manouba University. Kazdaghli is campaigning for the creation of a mu...

556 shares A Jewish Tunisian rests inside the Ghriba synagogue, one the oldest Jewish monuments built in Africa more than 2,500 years ago, on the resort island of Djerba, south of Tunis, Tunisia, Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2015. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy) TUNIS, Tunisia (AFP) –Tunisia is struggling to protect North Africa’s Jewish heritage, threatened by vandalism, looting and the smuggling of valuable artifacts bearing witness to the long history of the region’s Jews. While many of Tunisia’s own synagogues and Jewish graveyards lie neglected, the country has also become a conduit for ...