Activist and writer Florence Gozlan, the most famous and unofficial ambassador of Deraa, talks about his city as a rebel even within the uprising

A 600 km au Sud d’Alger, près de la frontière tunisienne, se trouve El Oued, ville commerçante. Nora, patronne de hammam et figure du quartier, y vit.

Nora is running a hammam in El Oued, a merchant city located 600 km from Algiers, close by the Tunisian border, and she’s become a pillar in her community.

Even though most of the speakers of the FIKR10 conference were the older and traditional ones, young participants marked their presence with their initiatives, making their voices heard.

Tunisia is sipping its future towards democracy without looking back. I spoke with people in Tunis, to ask and see what the new life is bringing to people.

Mashallah News is happy to introduce a new feature: live reporting: “Understanding the Arab …Spring? Uprising? Revolution? Awakening? Citizen Revolt?”

At the clinic of doctor Adel Abd El Malek Ghali in Ezbet El-Nakhl in Cairo, where 6000+ people work with collecting and recycling the city’s daily waste.

It’s authentic, generous and dynamic, and contains human stories which are the key to a better understanding of the Aurès mountains of north-east Algeria.

Pour comprendre les Aurès, terre de Tacfarinas ou Larbi Ben M’Hidi, plongez-vous dans le nouveau livre des éditions Chihab, Aurès, vivre la terre chaouie.

This isn’t a zoo, it’s a madhouse with animals living in it. It’s not even a madhouse; it lacks the psychology of a madhouse. It’s an unfortunate union of an animal kingdom and a rundown infrastructure.