Day: April 23, 2024

Tunis: Water, a rare resource” is a new collection of comic strips (2023-2024) in French and Arabic on the theme of climate change and water management.

This collection of black and white and colour comic strips was produced by 18 Tunisian winners of a competition open to all, including professionals, organised by the European Union Delegation in Tunisia and the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation in 2023.

The 106-page publication was produced as part of the ‘Sawer Bel Azrak’ (Draw with Blue) initiative. Participants in this initiative were given the opportunity to take part in cartoon workshops to raise public awareness of the shared responsibility to protect the rare and vital resource of water.

Participants tackled a range of water-related themes through attractive titles such as ‘L’enfant de la pluie’, ‘lutte pour la survie’, ‘une goutte d’eau’, ‘une vie’, ‘la Huppe, mon sauveur’, ‘Linda et l’enquête mouillée’, ‘dernière chance’, ‘stop gaspi’, ‘monde sans couleurs’, ‘Aqua-Girl’…

The prize-giv
ing ceremony for the winners of this competition took place on March 28 in the medina of Tunis and was attended by 100 people.

Five thousand copies of the booklet were distributed free of charge with the daily newspaper ‘La Presse’ on Sunday, April 21.

‘This collection of comic strips is, above all, tangible proof of the exuberant creativity of Tunisian youth,” reads the editorial signed by Marcus Cornaro, the European Union’s ambassador to Tunisia. ‘All the original works published in this booklet were created specifically for this initiative by talented artists from different regions of Tunisia.’

The Ambassador praised ‘the characteristic commitment of Tunisian youth to a noble cause that is close to our hearts, the management of water resources’. He went on to say that ‘the EU stands shoulder to shoulder with Tunisia in the fight against the effects of climate change’.

Source: Agence Tunis Afrique Presse

Tunis: In keeping with his reflections, research and studies on the presence of the Sicilian community in Tunisia, writer, essayist and academic Alfonso Campisi, who has just signed a new opus, presented on April 22 in Tunis, “Words and Images of a Minor History: Sicilian migration to Tunisia between the 19th and 20th centuries,” published by Arabesques 2024 editions.

“Through the personal story of the Campisi family, who settled in Tunisia in 1830, as well as the memoirs and recollections of Sicilians in Tunisia, I wanted to tell the story of migration, its arrivals and departures, with passion and rigour and with respect for history, through the feelings of men and women in a Mosaic narrative where the various stories seem to intersect and intertwine,” he said at a panel discussion organised as part of the 38th edition of the Tunis International Book Fair.

Co-authored with Italian academic, poet and translator Flaviano Pisanelli, this book (written in French and Italian) tells the stories of men and women
who lived in perfect harmony with the Tunisian population, but who, after leaving Tunisia, found it difficult to come to terms with and develop an identity with their homeland, hence the sense of belonging and strangeness in relation to the family homeland, as evoked in the book.

“In addition to the intercultural dimension, which concerns know-how, savoir-vivre and the constant dialogue between the customs and traditions of each of the two cultures, these stories also speak of the social and cultural disappointment of some who were worried about “finding a professional life worthy of the name in a country that bore no resemblance whatsoever to their plural Tunisia,” he writes.

Source: Agence Tunis Afrique Presse

Tunis: Director General of the Tunisian Authority for Copyright and Related Rights (OTDAV), Ramzi Garouachi, said that preparations are underway to sign a partnership and cooperation agreement with TAP news agency, under which the authority will provide the agency with legal support to guarantee its copyrights in relation to articles (stories), photos and videos produced by its journalists and photographers.

The Authority will also seek to enable the agency to deposit its works with the Authority in order to protect it and its journalists in all the works they produce, he added

Garouachi was speaking on the sidelines of a seminar held on Tuesday during the 38th edition of the Tunis International Book Fair at the Exhibition Palace in Kram, on World Book and Copyright Day observed on April 23.

Source: Agence Tunis Afrique Presse

Tunis: The International Organization for the Protection of Children of the Mediterranean (OIPEM), Tuesday, called for the need to establish a national day to combat violence in Tunisia, stressing that this dangerous phenomenon has taken scale in educational establishments.

It underlined the importance of establishing a national day to combat violence in society and within the family as well as implementing new legislation adapted to this phenomenon, the sanctions of which would be proportional to the seriousness of the offenses.

«Alarming figures have been recorded concerning acts of violence committed during April, resulting in victims among students and teachers,» it added.

The OIPEM specified that the family is responsible for the care and supervision of children and must assume its role of support and listening, recalling the results of a study carried out in March 2013 which revealed that 80% of parents do not communicate with their children on issues related to daily life.

Source: Agence Tunis Afr
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