Film festivals: The revolution of the female gaze has begun
It’s the second consecutive season in which the Cannes Film Festival has honored women and their struggles. This high mass of world cinema also seems to be intent on highlighting...
Olfa Belhassine is a Tunisian journalist who has been working with the Tunisian daily “La Presse” since 1990. After the 2011 protests, her articles started appearing in “Libération”, “Le Monde” and “Courrier International”, a testament to her extensive experience as a journalist reporting from Tunisia during President Ben Ali's rule and after his fall. In 2013, Olfa was awarded the first journalism prize of the “Center of Arab Women” for her investigative work on customary marriage in Tunisia, published in “La Presse.” Olfa has also been corresponding since 2015 for the JusticeInfo.net, a website specializing in transitional justice around the world. Olfa Belhassone and Hedia Barkat have published a book titled 'Ces nouveaux mots qui font la Tunisie' (These new words that make Tunisia), providing an in-depth exploration of the political transition in Tunisia after the revolution.
It’s the second consecutive season in which the Cannes Film Festival has honored women and their struggles. This high mass of world cinema also seems to be intent on highlighting...
Emna Mrabet is a lecturer in the cinema department of Paris 8 University, where her teaching focuses on the aesthetics of cinema, documentary production, and film analysis. The emphasis of...
Over the month of Ramadan, from Lebanon to Tunisia, Syria to Palestine, passing through Algeria, Egypt, and Morocco, viewers across Arab-Muslim countries share an almost sacred ritual: watching soap operas...
A study carried out in 2015 by the Tunisian Independent High Authority for Audiovisual Communication (Haute Autorité indépendante de la communication audiovisuelle- HAICA) in collaboration with the Belgian Superior Audiovisual...
This dossier, encompassing the words, reports, and articles of Mediterranean feminist journalists who live either on the front lines of armed conflict or nearby, intends to give a face, a...
Marta Luceno Moreno, a feminist and researcher in gender, works on intersectionality and is particularly interested in the issue of migration of sub-Saharan women. An interview.
Victims of trafficking networks set up between Tunisia and Côte d'Ivoire, Ivorian migrant women recruited as domestic workers find themselves in situations of extreme vulnerability. This reality is also manifested...
I never thought that this day would come again—the day that exercising my profession as a journalist would become scary.
Marianne Chbat, Canadian of Lebanese-Egyptian origin, has a PhD in applied human sciences from the University of Montreal. Her field of expertise is LGBTQ migrants, mainly from the Middle East....
Hela Ouardi, Professor of French literature and civilization at the University of Tunis, and associate researcher of the CNRS Laboratory for Studies on Monotheisms, continues a process of reflection initiated...
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