Tunisians will head to polls in autumn next year to elect a new President or re-elect incumbent leader Kais Saied in power since 2019, the country’s independent electoral commission, ISIE, indicated Wednesday August 9. Mohamed Tlili Mansri, spokesperson for the Commission, told local media “Mosaïque FM” that per the 2014 election law that has not […]
Moroccan anthropologist Aomar Boum, a renowned scholar of Jewish culture, has been appointed to the Maurice Amado Chair in Sephardic Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Author and co-editor of four books, including “Memories of Absence: How Muslims Remember Jews in Morocco,” and “The Holocaust and North Africa,” Boum is also a […]
Moroccan security services arrested in the eastern city of Oujda an alleged member of the terrorist cell that committed the attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils last Thursday and Friday. “A Moroccan linked to the terrorist cell that committed the attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils was arrested,” reported the Spanish news website Vozpopuli, citing police sources. […]
