Women rappers were not really a feature of Tunisia’s typically masculine and chauvinist hip-hop scene until the revolution that overthrew Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali in 2011. Now there are several ...

It happens every April ahead of the summer marriage season, says Tunisian gynaecologist Faouzi Hajri — desperate brides-to-be beg for surgery to make them “virgins” again for their wedding night.

Over the next couple weeks, NPR Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep is taking a Revolutionary Road Trip across North Africa to see how the countries that staged revolutions last year are remaking ...

From movies and jewellery to the cartoon Willis from Tunis, Tunisia’s women are using modern IP tools to protect ancient skills and challenge old inequalities, says Vera Albino of Inventa Each year, ...

TUNIS: Tunisia’s president on Monday proposed giving women equal inheritance rights despite protests from thousands of people objecting to any challenge to Islamic law. The North African Muslim ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. STORY: (Olfa Dabbabi, Artist) “The thing I always wanted to do was to represent women in an artistic way. I always want to present ...

TUNIS (Reuters) - For Tunis resident Amel, her country's January revolution brought her personal freedom after two decades living in a repressive police state. But as a woman, she is fearful Tunisia's ...

Tunisia, the largely moderate North African country, has struggled to stymie the flow of hundreds of young men leaving to fight alongside rebels in Syria’s more than two-year-long, bloody civil war.

(SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) CO-FOUNDER OF LA FABRIQUE ART STUDIO, MOHAMED BEN SLAMA, SAYING: "This experiment is based on the production of an entire album in which women contribute in some way to be ...

TUNIS: Tunisian civil society groups expressed outrage after a young woman was accused of indecency by two policemen jailed for raping her, amid criticism of the conservative government on women’s ...

In Aswan, Sudanese refugees cross into Egypt through the Argeen land port. Str/ZUMA TUNIS — Jamila, a Sudanese migrant in Tunisia, needs urgent uterine surgery, but lacks the money to pay for the ...