The Tunisian American Day-2014
On Saturday May, 2014 our organization celebrated the tenth annual Tunisian-American Day. This year's event took place at the campus of the prestigious University of California at Berkeley. Among the guests were: the ambassador of Tunisia to the United States, H. E. Mhamed Ezzine Chlaifa, several local dignitaries as well as some faculty from UC Berkeley.
The capacity crowd was treated to a traditional Couscous dinner and live music entertainment, both Tunisian and American.
The highlight of the evening was, of course, the presentation of the Ibn Khaldun Award to this year's honoree, Dr. Bessam Loukil who delivered a very inspiring acceptance speech. There was also the presentation of the Aboulkacem Chebbi Student of the Year recognition by non other than the beautiful and talented Wahiba Arres, Miss Tunisia for 2014. The beauty queen, who had graciously accepted our invitation to be part of our event,
made the trip from Tunis to San Francisco two days earlier, in the company of Mrs Aida Antar, president of the Cultural and Artistic Association, TEJ.
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Editorial Board
.Editor: Ali Khemili.
.Contributing Writers:
Hatem Bourial, Maya Charrad, Amir Guedoir, Hedi Jaouad, Raouf Khelil.
.Contributing Editors:
Meriem Chared, JB Gabsy, Sami Guedoir, Amine Kallala, Ridha Lanouar, Mondher Smida.
.Editors-at-large:
Phil Jones (Friends-Of-Tunisia), Larry Michalak (UC bekeley), Ammare Zarkani (Al-Machrek & Al-Maghreb
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Tunisian Community Center
PO Box 837
Clifton Park, NY 12065
Phone: 339-2244-TCC
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(Honorary) Tunisian of The Month
Dr. Michalak is a cultural anthropologist with degrees from Stanford University (BA 1964), the University of London (MA 1970), and UC Berkeley (PhD 1983). He was Vice Chair of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of California at Berkeley for 23 years (from 1979 to 2002). His specialty is the Arab World and especially Tunisia, where he has spent over ten years. He worked for the Peace Corps in Tunisia between 1964 and 1969, did PhD research there in the 1970s, was Director of the Center for Maghreb Studies in Tunis from 2006 to 2010, and has returned to Tunisia each year since the Revolution.
Dr. Michalak is fluent in Tunisian Arabic and French and has published numerous articles on Tunisia, about rural markets, labor migration, and other topics.
His latest book about Tunisia...
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Set Sail For Tunisia
Until 2011, Tunisian tourism accounted for 7% of GDP and provided close to 12% of Tunisia's total employment, and more than 20% of the country's revenues in vital foreign currency. Now, that the political situation of the last three years was stabilized, it is time for European and American tourists (and investors) to "set sail for Tunisia"
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"Sound off" to the World Bank
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The World Bank is reaching out to the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) expats to get their views on ways to contribute to the economic development of their countries of origin. This Survey is for the purpose of informing the World Bank and its partners on their policies and programs.
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About Islamism
This lucid
Op-Ed article
published in the June 3, 2014 NY Times highlights political Islam's failure for democratic rule both in Egypt and Tunisia. The author also cites the broad outlines of what the US policy toward Islamism should be.
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