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Tunisian Youth Speak Out for Peace
- Published on Saturday, 23 June 2012 23:07
- Category: Letters From Tunisia
Political and social differences sparked tension last week in Tunis, resulting in security alerts and a four-day curfew. Among causes for the clash, Islamist protesters objected to a contemporary art exhibit that displayed works that they deemed heretical (see Letters from Tunisia).
From Arab Spring to Art Spring in Tunis
- Published on Friday, 08 June 2012 06:00
- Category: Letters From Tunisia
The “Enchanted Forest” appears both fragile and permanent, multiple and unique. These qualities could describe Rita Alaoui’s marble installation at Printemps Des Arts Fair Tunis 2012 and also the event itself. Alaoui’s tenuous trees, along with the many artists and galleries taking part, hope to provoke, engage and test new boundaries of expression.
Tunis hosts its tenth annual contemporary arts fair at three sites, exhibiting more than 500 works across multiple media and forms. In addition to independent artists, galleries from Sidi Bou Said, La Marsa and La Soukra have presented pieces.
Harnessing Winds of Change (and Entrepreneurship) In Tunisia
- Published on Wednesday, 06 June 2012 06:42
- Category: Letters From Tunisia
A year and a half into the "new" Tunisia, a team of entrepreneurial engineers may revolutionize renewable energy. Hassine Labaied and Anis Aouini of Saphon Energy have introduced a new technology aimed at harnessing and storing wind power. According to its designers, the "Saphonian" captures and stores wind energy more efficiently, cheaply and safely than windmill technology. In the spirit of the Jasmine Revolution: out with the old, in with the new.