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Khemais Khayati

Khemais Khayati is the Tunis correspondent for Monte Carlo Doualiya and for France 24. Previously, he wrote for al-Yom Assabeh, and contributed to France-Culture Radio’s Panorama on a regular basis. A doctor in sociology, he worked as the press director at the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris, and produced and hosted a show on Arab cinema on Tunis 7 Radio. He has written extensively on media in the Arab World.

Opinions by this panelist

The press should avoid sensationalism

The Maghreb press, like any other throughout the world, is fulfilling its function of informing citizens especially in crisis times, and the emergence of the swine flu pandemic is an example of crisis. The majority of newspapers has roughly respected… more

Sex tourism in the maghreb or the persistence of underdevelopment...

Thirty years ago, a young Tunisian filmmaker made a black-and-white short film with the revealing title: "Forbidden Thresholds" - "al-Atabat al-Mamnu3a" - by Ridha Behi... This film was about the first effects of mass tourism. At that time, Tunisia, just… more