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32bis — gallery cover

Downtown Tunis

32bis

Archivart Gallery — gallery cover

La Marsa

Archivart Gallery

B7L9 Art Station — gallery cover

La Marsa

B7L9 Art Station

Central Tunis — gallery cover

Downtown Tunis

Central Tunis

Centre National d'Art Vivant (CNAV) — gallery cover

Parc du Belvédère

Centre National d'Art Vivant (CNAV)

Centre des Arts Vivants de Radès — gallery cover

Radès

Centre des Arts Vivants de Radès

Elmarsa Gallery — gallery cover

La Marsa

Elmarsa Gallery

Galerie A. Gorgi — gallery cover

Sidi Bou Saïd

Galerie A. Gorgi

Galerie Ben Chorbal — gallery cover

Medina of Tunis

Galerie Ben Chorbal

Galerie Le Violon Bleu — gallery cover

Sidi Bou Saïd

Galerie Le Violon Bleu

Galerie Saladin — gallery cover

Sidi Bou Saïd

Galerie Saladin

Ghaya Gallery — gallery cover

Sidi Bou Saïd

Ghaya Gallery

L'Art Rue — gallery cover

Medina of Tunis

L'Art Rue

La Boîte — gallery cover

Tunis

La Boîte

Maison de l'Image — gallery cover

Mutuelleville

Maison de l'Image

Mono Gallery — gallery cover

Downtown Tunis

Mono Gallery

Musk & Amber — gallery cover

Les Berges du Lac

Musk & Amber

Selma Feriani Gallery — gallery cover

El Kram

Selma Feriani Gallery

TGM Gallery — gallery cover

La Marsa

TGM Gallery

Yosr Ben Ammar Gallery — gallery cover

La Marsa

Yosr Ben Ammar Gallery

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Bardo National Museum — museum cover

Bardo National Museum

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Carthage National Museum — museum cover

Carthage National Museum

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Carthage Paleo-Christian Museum — museum cover

Carthage Paleo-Christian Museum

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Cinema Museum — museum cover

Cinema Museum

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Currency Museum — museum cover

Currency Museum

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Dar Ben Abdallah Museum — museum cover

Dar Ben Abdallah Museum

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Dar El Annabi — museum cover

Dar El Annabi

Public institution
Ennejma Ezzahra Palace — museum cover

Ennejma Ezzahra Palace

Public institution
Finance Museum — museum cover

Finance Museum

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Museum of Modern Art — museum cover

Museum of Modern Art

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National Military Museum — museum cover

National Military Museum

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Palais Kheïreddine — museum cover

Palais Kheïreddine

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Postal Museum of Tunisia — museum cover

Postal Museum of Tunisia

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Salammbô Oceanographic Museum — museum cover

Salammbô Oceanographic Museum

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Tunis Science City — museum cover

Tunis Science City

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Djerbahood, Erriadh — place

Djerbahood, Erriadh

An open-air street-art museum painted onto a Djerban village where three faiths have lived together for centuries.

Tunis

Hotel Sidi Driss, Matmata — place

Hotel Sidi Driss, Matmata

A troglodyte pit-dwelling that became Luke Skywalker's childhood home — and is still a working hotel.

Tunis

Ksar Hadada — place

Ksar Hadada

A Berber granary-turned-hotel that played the main slave-quarters streets of Mos Espa.

Tunis

Ksar Ouled Soltane, Tataouine — place

Ksar Ouled Soltane, Tataouine

A fortified Berber granary of honeycombed vaults — mud-brick architecture that reads like another planet.

Tunis

Mos Espa Film Set, Ong Jmal — place

Mos Espa Film Set, Ong Jmal

A purpose-built Star Wars town in the sand near Tozeur — and a reference point for real dune science.

Tunis

Stories from Tunis

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A robed, veiled crowd gathered in a red desert landscape in the style of a science-fiction epic — the visual vocabulary Hollywood reuses to signal an alien world.
Editorial

Tunis · Tunisia

Why Every Sci-Fi Desert Looks Arab

From Arrakis to Tatooine, when a film wants a desert to feel ancient, prophetic and alien, it reaches for an Arab and Berber vocabulary — and reveals more about the West that built it than the region it borrows from.

The wrapped faces, the trilling women, the barely-displaced Arabic: cinema's alien deserts keep sounding Arab. But the vocabulary was assembled in the West — from Orientalist painting to Lawrence to Dune — and it says more about who is looking than about anyone being looked at.

Sixth-century Sasanian moulded stucco panel showing a repeating pomegranate-in-palmette design, excavated near Ctesiphon, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Editorial

Tehran · Iran

The Fruit We Are Sure We Recognize

How the pomegranate became one of the most confidently named motifs in Islamic ornament — and one of the least confidently identified — across a thousand years of tile, silk and stucco, with meanings we mostly attached later.

A slab of sixth-century plaster in the Met shows a fruit you recognise at a glance: a pomegranate, and surely it means paradise. Hold that certainty up to the light and it dissolves. Across a thousand years of tile, silk and stucco, the pomegranate is the shape we name most confidently and identify least — blurring into the artichoke and the palmette, its meanings attached by later viewers, its very name partly a nineteenth-century invention

Stylised illustration of Tifinagh-like signs incised on a sandstone panel among desert rock-art figures of cattle, horsemen and ostriches — evoking the Libyco-Berber inscriptions of southern Morocco.
Editorial

Marrakech · Morocco

The Visual Language Older Than Arabic

How one of North Africa's oldest writing traditions survived conquest, colonial classification and the loss of its readers — and why, for much of it, we still cannot say what the marks mean.

A flat rock in southern Morocco is covered in a script you can see is writing and still cannot read a word of. It belongs to the Amazigh — a visual language older in North Africa than the Arabic alphabet, carried onto skin and wool and silver, nearly erased, and now reassembled into an alphabet on ministry walls. This is the story of what survived, what didn't, and why almost everything we "know" these signs mean was added later.

Sunlit central courtyard of a traditional Moroccan riad in the Fez medina, with zellij tilework, arched galleries and a fountain beneath an open square of sky.
Editorial

Marrakech · Morocco

Why North African Cities Turn Inward: The Story of the Courtyard

A courtyard plan far older than Islam turned North African houses — and the medinas built from them — to face inward. Climate and religion only half-explain why, and what finally displaced the courtyard says the rest.

The blank walls and inward courtyards of Fez, Tunis, Algiers and Cairo are usually explained by heat or religion. Both are true; neither is the whole story. The clue is in what eventually pushed the courtyard out of the modern city.

A hand-built terracotta figure painted with two-tone geometric patterns — triangles and crosshatch in red-brown on a pale ground — in the Sejnane style of northern Tunisia.
Editorial

Tunis · Tunisia

Women Makers: Sadu, Sejnane and the Art the West Called Craft

How the women of Sejnane and the Sadu tents made a world of geometric art the museum system had no shelf for — and how it is finally being called by its name.

Two women's traditions — the clay of Sejnane in Tunisia, the woven tents of the Arabian Peninsula — share no bloodline, only a rhyme: the same spare geometry, held and passed down by women, in whatever material their world gave them. This is the story of the visual knowledge the West filed under "craft," the makers it kept downstairs, and the contemporary artists now carrying it back up into the room where "art" is defined.