Tunisia

The Lives of Tunisia’s Remaining Jews

The 2,000-year-old community hopes for a future.

Rachel Gilmore
June 16 2022 12:01AM

Two Years After the Pandemic Began, the Jewish Pilgrimage to the Tunisian Island of Djerba Resumes

Political tensions linger.

Kersten Knipp
May 19 2022 12:01AM

A Snapshot of the Holocaust in North Africa

“Jews are unwanted.”

Aomar Boum, Sarah Abrevaya Stein and Eugène Boretz
April 28 2022 12:01AM

How Yehuda Zeitoun Became the Face of 20th-Century Tunisian Jewry

A photogenic rabbi of many talents.

Nati Gabbay
Aug. 30 2021 12:01AM

To Many Arabs, the Fall of Tunisia’s Islamist Rulers Is Good News

Only Palestinians and Westerners haven’t been disillusioned.

Khaled Abu Toameh
Aug. 25 2021 12:01AM

Tunisians Are Disenchanted with Islamist Rule

The recent coup didn’t kill democracy—just acknowledged its death.

Benny Avni
July 28 2021 12:01AM

Facing Discontent, Tunisia’s President Blames the Jews

Putting in danger one of the Arab world’s largest Jewish communities.

Edy Cohen
March 10 2021 12:01AM

The Man Who Worked to Preserve Tunisian Judeo-Arabic Literature

Daniel Hagège.

Chen Malul
Sept. 11 2020 12:01AM

No Historic Duty toward Other Men Should Prevent Jews from Attending to Their Own Difficulties

The late Tunisian-Jewish intellectual wonders if he is a traitor.

Albert Memmi
June 10 2020 12:01AM

Will Arab Anti-Zionism Return?

Hatred of Israel may have propelled Tunisia’s new president to electoral victory.

Daniel Pipes
Jan. 16 2020 12:01AM

Reviving an Ancient Tunisian Jewish Pilgrimage

Jews, Muslims, and Ghriba.

Daniel Lee
June 4 2019 12:01AM

Albert Memmi’s Very Jewish Rejection of Postcolonial Orthodoxies

The diary of a Tunisian Jew.

April 5 2018 12:01AM

Off the Tunisian Coast, an Island of Jewish-Arab Coexistence

The Jews of Djerba.

Cnaan Liphshiz
Sept. 27 2017 12:01AM

Tunisia’s Ex-President Should Worry about His Own Country’s Problems

He was on a boat attempting to run the blockade of Gaza.

David Horovitz
July 1 2015 12:01AM
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