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News Tunisia » Gaabes » Culture: Tunisia’s Gabes Cinema Fen: The festival bringing back cultural life

News channel or source: https://www.theafricareport.com/210763/tunisias-gabes-cinema-fen-the-festival-bringing-back-its-cultural-life/

Published on: Friday 03 June 2022

Dubbed ‘The Shore of Death’, the coastal city of Gabes has made headlines over the past decade for being an environmental wasteland. 13,000 tonnes of phosphate are dumped into the Mediterranean Sea ...

News Tunisia » Gaabes » Culture: Tunisia’s Gabès Festival Taps Into Regional Tensions For 2026 Edition With Oliver Laxe, Kaouther Ben Hania & Hend Sabry

News channel or source: https://deadline.com/2026/05/tunisias-gabes-festival-2026-edition-laxe-ben-hania-1236879297/

Published on: Monday 04 May 2026

Oliver Laxe’s Moroccan desert rave-set drama Sirāt closed the eighth edition of the Gabès Cinema Festival (Gabès Cinéma Fen) over the weekend in the presence of the Spanish French director. Afef Ben ...

News Tunisia » Gaabes » Culture: Tunisia’s Gabès Cinema Festival Appoints Afef Ben Mahmoud As Director

News channel or source: https://deadline.com/2026/02/tunisias-gabes-cinema-festival-afef-ben-mahmoud-director-1236726682/

Published on: Monday 16 February 2026

EXCLUSIVE: Tunisian actress and filmmaker Afef Ben Mahmoud has taken up the baton as director of the eighth edition of Tunisia’s Gabès Cinema Festival (Gabès Cinéma Fen), celebrating the moving image ...

News Tunisia » Gaabes » Culture: Tunisia's Gabès Festival taps into regional tensions for 2026 edition

News channel or source: https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/music/tunisia-s-gab%C3%A8s-festival-taps-into-regional-tensions-for-2026-edition/ar-AA22qXjF

Published on: Sunday 03 May 2026

Oliver Laxe's Moroccan desert rave-set drama Sirāt closed the eighth edition of the Gabès Cinema Festival (Gabès Cinéma Fen) over the weekend in the presence of the Spanish director. Afef Ben Mahmoud, ...

News Tunisia » Gaabes » Culture: Protests escalate in Tunisia's Gabes amid a deepening environmental crisis

News channel or source: https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/tunisian-protesters-storm-chemicals-complex-over-health-fears-2025-10-11/

Published on: Saturday 11 October 2025

Protesters demand closure of Gabes phosphate complex over pollution President Saied blames old policies for Gabes' environmental crisis, orders solutions Government plans to boost production of ...

News Tunisia » Gaabes » Culture: General strike, protests paralyse Tunisia's Gabes over pollution crisis

News channel or source: https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2025/10/general-strike-protests-paralyse-tunisias-gabes-over-pollution-crisis

Published on: Monday 20 October 2025

TUNIS (Reuters) -A general strike and tens of thousands of protesters brought the southern Tunisian city of Gabes to a standstill on Tuesday to back demands for the closure of a state chemical plant ...