''Réalités'' (حقائق meaning ''Realities'' in English) is a weekly
French-language
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Tunisian
news magazine.
History and profile
An independent magazine, it is published by
Maghreb Media each Thursday. It was founded in 1979 by
Taïeb Zahar and quickly became an important element of Tunisian national media.
The magazine is published weekly and offers news.
It also covers investigative reports.
Following the publication of an article on prison conditions in its December 2002 issue the staff writer was forced to leave the magazine. On 30 December 2010, during the
protests, the magazine published an article, praising of the family members of the former President
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
In 2005, an
Arabic version began to be published. Its columnists/editors are
Taïeb Zahar,
Pascal Boniface,
Ridha Lahmar
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Hakim Ben Hammouda
Hakim Ben Hammouda (born 7 August 1961) is a Tunisian economist and was appointed the interim Finance Minister of Tunisia by the Prime Minister Mehdi Jomaa. He has previously worked with the African Development Bank.
Biography
He works for ...
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Zyed Krichen and
Foued Zaouche
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Its 1994 circulation was 25,000 copies.
[ As of June 2006, the magazine had a circulation of 23,500, with 9,500 subscribers.
In 2014 its editor of the culture section, Hanene Zbiss, won the Samir Kassir Award for Freedom of the Press by the European Union for his report entitled “Quranic kindergartens in Tunisia”.]
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1979 establishments in Tunisia
Arabic-language magazines
French-language magazines
French-language mass media in Tunisia
Magazines established in 1979
News magazines published in Africa
Magazines published in Tunisia
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