Sophie Bessis, a specialist in North-South relations and the status of women in Africa and the Arab world, is Franco-Tunisian and lives between Paris and Carthage. She is the author...

“La Malédiction (1)”, or Ain Houta, is an energetic, furious punk-rock performance presented by Wissal Labidi on September 26th as part of the Nawaat Festival. A 45-minute barrage of incisive...

Undoubtedly, Mediterranean women artists—those who venture further than most—have raised new questions, provoked ruptures, and expanded the horizons of what’s possible. This feature sheds light on the bold, boundary-pushing approaches...

In the 2000s, two women photographers, Meriem Bouderbala and Hela Ammar, challenged long-held beliefs and introduced a new perspective on the female body and how it is represented. Both from...

The fight to save the planet, linked to women’s rights, began to shake the world in the 1970s. Yet a number of books and publications, both old and recent, show...

While terms like war, rearmament, and nuclear umbrella have been dominating the headlines since Donald Trump’s inauguration for his second term as president of the United States on January 20,...

Nabila Hamza is a sociologist, gender expert, and feminist activist. She is the co-founder of the Tunisian Association of Democratic Women (ATFD) and a member of the advisory board of...

Our WhatsApp group, MedFem News, woke up on Sunday, December 8 to the incredible news: “Bashar al-Assad has fled Syria! Damascus has been liberated!” The euphoria was contagious, but the...

1975, 1982, 2006, 2024… dates that resonate like the sound of a shrill war alarm in the minds and memories of the people living in the tiny country that is...

The Mediterranean basin is vast. Its scenes of everyday life, with women busy in the streets, are numerous. Despite the rights and freedoms that women have won in recent decades...