Chéma Gargouri is the founder and president of The Tunisian Association for Management and Social Stability (TAMSS), a non-profit, community development NGO. Established in 2005, when civil society was frowned upon in pre-revolution Tunisia, the organization was the first social enterprise in the country focusing on women and youth developement.

This past August, during one of her frequent visits to the US, Mme Gargouri graciously gave the following online/phone interview to The Community Gazette.

The second annual "Citizen Day" workshop was held at the Bibliotheque Regionale in Gafsa this past August.

The event was very well attended and received extensive coverage by the Tunisian media, including "Al Watanya" and "Al-Hiwar" television channels.
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Sign (and pass on) the petition to the Citizens Stamp Advisory Committee to commemorate artist, poet, philosopher and author Khalil Gibran through a US postage stamp.

"TuNur" is a 13 billion dollar Tunisian-British project for the production of electricty from solar energy. The power plant is loacted in the Governorate of Guebilli, in southern Tunisia and will create about 21,500 jobs.

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Consistent with its mission of promoting the Tunsian-American friendship, our organization is proud to team up with the Program of Academic Exchange , an international high school exchange organization, to find an American family to host a student from Tunisia for a full academic year/ semester (or shorter options for 6-8 weeks) while the student attends a local high school.

For more information, please contact Research and Outreach Assistant, Kelsey Maloney.

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.Editor: Ali Khemili.
.Contributing Writers: Hatem Bourial, Maya Charrad, Hedi Jaouad, Raouf Khelil.
.Contributing Editors:, Meriem Chared, JB Gabsy, Sami Guedoir, Ridha Lanouar, Mona Sarrai, Mondher Smida.
.Editors-at-large: Phil Jones (Friends-Of-Tunisia), Ammare Zarkani (Al-Machrek & Al-Maghreb)