Jawhara FM (); is a private

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. Generalist radio whose studios are located in

Sousse Sousse or Soussa ( ar, سوسة, ; Berber:''Susa'') is a city in Tunisia, capital of the Sousse Governorate. Located south of the capital Tunis, the city has 271,428 inhabitants (2014). Sousse is in the central-east of the country, on the Gulf ...

, it was launched on 25 July 2005 by the voice of Walid Besbes. The name Jawhara FM refers to the nickname given in Tunisia to the city of Sousse, the "pearl of the Sahel", the word jawhara in

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pearl A pearl is a hard, glistening object produced within the soft tissue (specifically the mantle) of a living shelled mollusk or another animal, such as fossil conulariids. Just like the shell of a mollusk, a pearl is composed of calcium carb ...

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