Tunis

Mohamed Amine Htiouich began honing his metal engraving skills as a teenager. Now the 37-year-old Tunisian is training the next generation in the ancient art, recently recognized by UNESCO.

Htiouich first worked on copper, then silver and finally gold at the family's workshop in the old medina of Tunis.

Children's cries echo through the alleyways as they hunt for hidden treasure -- part of growing efforts to bring life back to the Old City of Tunis.

Najet unravels an old pair of jeans, raw material for a designer carpet: traditional, eco-friendly crafts are being adapted for new markets thanks to a project born in the Tunisian desert.

"I learned to weave at a young age, from my mother," said the 52-year-old from the oasis town of Nefta, 500 kilometers south of Tunis.

Tunisia, the country where the spark began, which ignited the series of Arab revolutions in 2011, is a window of the Arab world in the Mediterranean space, inseparably tied to Europe through history and culture, is a country that shows that it can walk towards the future, towards modernity, without severing the ties it has to its past and traditions, said Romanian Ambassador in Tunisia Dan Stoe

Hundreds of women took to the streets in the Tunisian capital on March 10 to demand equal inheritance rights as men, a subject often seen as taboo in the Arab world.

A Jewish school on a Tunisian island was attacked late on Jan. 9 as police battled violent unrest elsewhere in the country, arresting more than 200 people, witnesses and the interior ministry said.

More than 200 people were arrested and dozens injured in clashes in several regions of Tunisia, the interior ministry said after a second night of protests against austerity measures by the authorities.

Ministerial spokesman Khalifa Cibani told a local radio station that 49 police officers were injured in clashes in the country and that 206 "thugs" were arrested.

Tour operator Thomas Cook has said there is a continued recovery for bookings to Turkey and the resurgence in Turkey had not been affected by increased tensions with Germany. 

The Tunisian man suspected of carrying out the deadly Berlin truck attack was shot dead by police in Milan on Dec. 23, Italy's interior minister Marco Minniti said.
The minister told a press conference in Rome that Anis Amri had been fatally shot after firing at police who had stopped his car for a routine identity check around 3a.m. (0200 GMT).

A celebratory band played Oct. 6 as a cruise liner docked in the port of Tunis for the first time since a March 2015 jihadist attack killed 21 tourists in the capital.
The German-operated MS Europa motored into La Goulette with 350 passengers on board for a one-day stopover.