كان يومًا هادئًا في منتصف شهر يناير. كان التونسيون حول العالم ملتصقين بشاشة الجزيرة ويبحرون على الفيسبوك، المصادرين الموثوقين الوحيدين للمعلومات خلال ثورة 2010. كان الجو مُعتمًا بالخارج وكان هادئًا جدًا بسبب فرض حظر التجول. تم إغلاق المطار، لكن هناك…

البلديات وتمويل الجمعيات
 

في عام 2018، انتخبت تونس ديمقراطيًا المجالس البلدية لأول مرة. عند تولي مسؤوليات المجلس، وبين عشية وضحاها تم تكليف الأعضاء المنتخبين بتنفيذ "مجلة الجماعات المحلية "، بعد عقود من العادات الراسخة وغير…

Tunisian Municipalities and Association Funding.
 

In 2018, Tunisia democratically elected municipal councils for the first time. Upon assuming their council responsibilities, the elected members were tasked with implementing a brand new Local Government Code nearly overnight, with little to…

-Speech at the 'Rethinking the Euro-Mediterranean cultural partnership' 2018- 

In 2016 a survey[1] to evaluate youth drug consumption and free time use, took part in the Medina, the historical urban quarter of Tunis. The survey concerned youth age 15-19,…

When Amir Ben-Gacem was a little boy, a family trip to the South of Tunisia marked him forever. Looking out the car window, he saw a magical, lifeless mirage: a vast land of dried mud, covered with a sheet of…

Press release 8/12/2019

Blue Fish, a firm specialized in improving the socio-economic dynamic of heritage, organizes the ‘Kayraouani Millennium’ celebration at Dar Ben Gacem Kahia on the 8th of December 2019. The Kayraouani is an Arabic calligraphic script that…

انتخبت تونس العام الماضي أول مجالس بلدية حقيقية. فتم الآن تحرير المجالس من وزارة الداخلية وأصبح لديها وزارة جديدة خاصة بالشؤون المحلية والبيئية. الانّ المجالس تمثل تمثيلا فعليّا لمجتمعهم، ولا ينتمي أعضاؤهم جميعًا إلى الحزب السياسي الوحيد ذو…

A year ago, Tunisia elected its first ‘real’ municipal councils. Councils have now been freed from ministry of interior and have their own new ministry of local affaires and the environment. The councils are final real representations of their community,…

أنا رائدة أعمال وريادة الأعمال لا تُميّز بين الجنسين، وهي تقوم على معادلة بسيطة: أن تعمل قدر المستطاع، وأن تُضحي بالغالي والثمين، ثم بعد الكثير من الجهد والوقت والمثابرة، وتحمُّل الضغط، وإذا كان الحظ في صفك، ستحقق النجاح…

Tunisian Japan Symposium 17 – 19 Sept. 2016, Management Strategy Towards the Establishment of Innovative Society

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The purpose of this work is to revive the historical urban quarters of Tunis Medina, through improved socio-cultural urban dynamics of creative industry…

In 2016, I led a survey to evaluate youth drug consumption in the Medina, the historical urban quarter of Tunis. The survey focuses on students aged 15-19, from nine high schools. The results of the survey showed a rate of…

‘Dar el Harka’ literally means ‘the house of movement’ in Tunisian dialect, and a term traditionally given to a Palace Wing where there is plenty of movement such as cooking, washing, ironing and all activities that require…

ظهرت التجارة ۔ أي تبادل السلع والخدمات ۔ منذ ظهور الإنسان. إذ تقص كتب التاريخ قصص الحروب والاستعمار والهجرات التي تعود كلها لسبب واحد ألا وهو رغبة البعض في امتلاك ما يعوزهم وما يملكه غيرهم، أكانت أراضي خصبة،…

Yamna just got back from her hunt on Chanbi Mountain, 40 miles from the city of Kasserine in Tunisia. Now her whole house is filled with halfa, and she can’t wait to start braiding the grasses into baskets that will travel all…

I am an entrepreneur; entrepreneurship is gender blind and it is a simple formula; you just work as hard as you can, sacrifice all you can, and after a lot of time you get lucky, and if you can persist…

Le plus grand succès de la révolution tunisienne est l’initiation de la société civile, finalement capable de compléter et partager les ressources et expertise avec son gouvernement. Avec le défi socioéconomique croissant, le gouvernement se trouve en manque d’outils nécessaires…

The Tunisian revolution’s most profound success has been the initiation of an important and active civil society finally able to complement and to share resources and expertise with its government. As socio-economic challenges grow, governments find themselves lacking the necessary…

In September 2013, I launched Dar Ben Gacem, a family home from the 17th century which I converted into a 7-room boutique hotel. When the beautiful house was put up for sale in 2006 by the family that had owned…

Tunisia’s 2011 revolution brought many economic challenges, due in part to the country’s heavy dependency on foreign trade and investments, which slowed down as the world watched the country adjust to its new post-revolution reality. The revolution also brought many…

Thanks to volunteering with MedinaPedia, a project launched by Carthagina & ASM Tunis to upload historical information about the Medina of Tunis onto Wikipedia, I have discovered that the Medina contains 28 Madrasas (schools which were built to educate civil servants). Some…

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This document outlines the initial findings and achievements of a pilot project aimed at Emirati heritage revival via micro-entrepreneur development of women home based weavers in the western region of Abu-Dhabi. The project was initiated by Khalifa fund for…

Once upon a time, the artisans of the Medina of Tunis were the masters of trade and commerce. Five words were used, to describe the entire urban commercial system which regulated the Medina’s artisans and their trade.

The “Orf”, is…

ASM Tunis was initiated by a group of urban activists in 1967, passionate about preservation Tunis Medina’s architectural and cultural identity… find out more on the Cairobserver

When visiting Souk el-Chaouachia in the Medina of Tunis, you find yourself passing by the little workshops of Chaouachi (Chechia artisans), where you can observe them, in their working overalls, busily working, brushing, ironing, checking the finishing or counting Chechias.…

After my modest entrepreneurial adventure of restoring an old home into a boutique hotel, all I see are opportunities for more adventures at almost every corner of the oldest part of our beloved capital, the Medina. I am not a…