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LETTER FROM MAGHREB. After a noticeable absence of eleven days, fueled by the craziest rumours, Kaïs Saïed banged his fist on the table.
Par Benoit Delmas
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Cach year, television channels simmer their Ramadan soap operas with assertive marketing care. Channels play reputation, audiences and revenues. These series have the life of the month of fasting, twenty-nine evenings broadcast following iftar. In Tunisia, the unsinkable producer Sami Fehri won with Falloujah, falsely shocking series that follows the career of a substitute teacher in a complicated high school in Radès (in the southern suburbs of Tunis) By titling Falloujah, in reference to the name of this Iraqi city which had rebelled once morest the American army, the production was able to fuel the controversy. The Minister of Education? Besides. The Federation of Secondary Education? “Scandalized”. However, another unforeseen event monopolized the grids: the d…
