Tunisia

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.

 I came to the "capital of the world" for a panel at Columbia University on a new and highly interesting book: "The Paradox of Liberation: Secular Revolutions and Religious Counterrevolutions." Penned by the prominent academic Michael Walzer, it is a book that explains how the secular parties that founded most post-colonial states were soon challenged and even defeated by a religious revival.

Tunisia's Central Bank said March 31 tourism revenue in first two months in 2016 fell by 54 percent to 182 million dinars ($90.21 million) compared with the same period of 2015.

The decline follows two major attacks by Islamist militants last year that targeted the industry and killed dozens of foreigners.

The world's tourism map is being redrawn at lightning speed as holidaymakers switch preferences prompted by terror attacks, epidemics and migrant crises.

Tunisia imposed a nationwide overnight curfew on Jan. 22 in response to growing unrest over unemployment as protests across the country descended into vandalism in several cities.

Tunisia's Islamist Ennahda Party became the biggest in parliament after more lawmakers in President Beji Caid Essebsi's Nidaa Tounes party resigned on Jan. 11 over the role of his son, saying they feared a return of the hereditary transfer of power. 

Tunisia's President Beji Caid Essebsi declared a nationwide state of emergency and a curfew in the capital after a bomb attack on a presidential guard bus killed at least 12 people on Nov. 24.
 

At least twelve people were killed as an explosion targeted a bus carrying presidential guards in the Tunisian capital of Tunis on Tuesday.

Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi declared a thirty-day state of emergency, saying that the country was in the "state of war".

The 26th Carthage Film Festival in Tunisia, a showcase for Arab and African cinematographers, opened amid heavy security on Nov. 21 in a country rocked this year by deadly jihadist attacks.

Thirty two Tunisian lawmakers accused President Beji Caid Essebsi's son of meddling and resigned from the ruling party bloc in parliament yesterday, allowing Islamist rivals to become the largest party.