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Medusa is Tunisia’s best known female rapper internationally, but she’s not the first woman in the scene. Medusa TN/Size Me cover art

Tunisia’s rap revolution: 5 women who are redefining hip‑hop

Women only really emerged in Tunisia’s male-dominated rap scene with the revolution in 2011. And they’re rapping about much more than just patriarchy.
Syrians sing and wave post-Assad flags during a concert by the recently returned “revolutionary” singer Wasfi Maasrani in Damascus. AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed,File

As Syria ponders a democratic future: 5 lessons from the Arab Spring

Syria faces real challenges. A look at the research on post-Arab Spring challenges offers some answers for a region wracked by many crises.
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Children’s movement affects health and development but research is lacking in Africa: here’s why

Africa contributes less than 1% of research worldwide on movement behaviours in children. This means that research on movement behaviours has largely excluded over 16% of the world’s population.
Tunisian journalists protest in front of the Prime Minister’s office in the capital Tunis on February 16, 2023, in defence of freedom of expression and against the persecution of journalists. Fethi Belaid/AFP

For Tunisia’s muzzled media, Arab Spring is now a distant memory

Freedom of expression was the one remaining gain of Tunisia’s 2011 revolution, but it is now severely threatened by a populist president.

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