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Tunisian director adapts Macbeth for the World Shakespeare Festival - 23/04/2012 Rebecca McLaughlin-Duane - The National
Ambition, tyranny and violence - the key ingredients of William Shakespeare's bloody tragedy Macbeth. Though some 400 years old, the play is thoroughly modern to the film and theatre director Lotfi...
Tlemcen, capital of Islamic culture: a highly colourful show to end - 23/04/2012 APS
The festivities marking the end of the event "Tlemcen, capital of the Islamic culture 2011" stared Saturday evening in Tlemcen, by a a highly colourful show, offered by the national ballet....
Malian Red Cross dispatches humanitarian aid to Timbuktu - 23/04/2012 NAU - Agencies
Mali’s Red Cross shipped five tonnes of food and medicines to Timbuktu, in the country’s northwest, occupied by armed groups and threatened by a humanitarian crisis, a Malian official said on...
Islamists and Education in the Arab World - 23/04/2012 NAU
Since the coming to power of islamist governing parties in North Africa one of the most sensitive subjects is the possible affect on education and the fear that islamic sharia might be introduced...
Northern Mali: The passivity against terrorist groups, a"concern" for Algeria, says Ould Kablia - 22/04/2012 APS
Minister of Interior Daho Ould Kablia said Saturday in Algiers that the passivity in northern Mali against terrorists on its soil was "of concern" for Algeria....
Regional survey exposes Middle Class concerns in Mena - 21/04/2012 NAU - Agencies
In the developed world the middle class often acts as a catalyst but this seems not to be happening in the Middle East.A poll by research company Booz and Co trys to find out why....
UNESCO celebrates World Book Day 23 April 2012 focusing on translation - 21/04/2012 NAU - Agencies
The UN cultural and educational agency UNESCO will celebrate World Book Day throughout the world, spreading the culture of reading and encouraging the protection of intellectual property and author’s...
U.S. and Tunisia Strengthen Trade, Investment Partnership - 21/04/2012 IPP Digital
A delegation of U.S. officials from the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) and the Commerce and State departments, shown here, met recently with the Tunisian government under the auspices...
Financial support for Tunisia - 21/04/2012 NAU - Agencies
US Treasury Secretary Geithner and Tunisian Finance Minister Dimassi Sign Declaration to Work Toward U.S. Loan Guarantee for Tunisia.
U.S....
The 10th EU-Morocco Association Council, 23 April Luxembourg - 21/04/2012 NAU
The 10th EU-Morocco Association Council, will take place on Monday in Luxembourg, The Association Agreement expired on in March with the dismantalling of tarrifs....
Algeria's elections - turn out in question - 20/04/2012 NAU - Agencies
In a remarkably open article APS remarks that the election campaign is marked by a gloomy atmosphere and bad organization according to the national daily newspapers on Thursday stressed that a...
Is Morocco the Mediterranean's Green Energy Savior? - 20/04/2012 Christopher Coats - Forbes
Amid the eager and often conflicting discussions about what it’s going to take to develop a real, tangible green economy in North Africa – one that makes the most of a seemingly endless supply of...
'Huge' water resource exists under Africa - 20/04/2012 Matt McGrath - BBC World Service
Scientists say the notoriously dry continent of Africa is sitting on a vast reservoir of groundwater.They argue that the total volume of water in aquifers underground is 100 times the amount found...
In Mali - Civilians Govern, the Junta Rules - 19/04/2012 Soumaila T. Diarra - IPSNews
Cheick Modibo Diarra has been named interim prime minister of Mali as a transitional administration takes shape, to guide the country back to full constitutional government. But despite agreeing to...
Justice for dictators: History rules-The Economist - 19/04/2012 NAU
A verdict is imminent in the case of Charles Taylor, pictured below, the first former head of state to be judged by an international court since the Nuremberg trials....
Cheick Modibo Diarra the new iterim Prime Minister of Mali - 19/04/2012 NAU - Agencies
Mali has a new interim Prime Minister Cheick Modibo Diarra. The son in law of forme President Mousa Traoré he has had remarkable career as an astrophysist work on Nasa projects after studying in...
Italian hostage freed in Burkina Faso arrives back in Italy - 19/04/2012 NAU - Agencies
The Italian hostage Maria Sandra Mariani freed in Burkino Faso arrived back in Italy at Rome Airport on Wednesday.
“Maria Sandra Mariani is...
The UK wants to strengthen its cooperation with Algeria in Gas and Renewable Energy - 19/04/2012 APS
The UK wishes to strengthen future cooperation with Algeria in particulary in the gas and renewable energy sectors, the British Ambassador in Algiers, Mr. Martyn Roper said on Wednesday ....
Islamic finance set to surge - 19/04/2012 NAU - Agencies
The Eurozone crisis and widespread protests against the global financial system present the $1 trillion Islamic the finance industry with a big opportunity to accelerate growth, Hussain Al Qemzi,...
Morocco: Drop Charges Against Detained Rapper - 18/04/2012 Human Rights Watch
Moroccan authorities should drop charges and release a rapper who has spent three weeks in pretrial detention on charges that he insulted the police in his songs and a video set to his music, Human...