Sejnane pottery is a women-led earthenware practice from northern Tunisia. Using local clay, potters form vessels and figures by hand without a wheel before decorating, drying, and firing them.

See how women in Sejnane, Tunisia, prepare, shape, decorate, and fire pottery by hand without a wheel through Chmissa’s living practice.

Meet Tunisia’s unofficial “cat tax”: the familiar terrace cats that appear beside café tables, wait patiently, and sometimes leave with a share of dinner.

Discover the Atlas Dog (Aïdi), North Africa's traditional livestock guardian. Explore its role, history, and what this remarkable guardian reveals about rural Tunisia and the landscapes that shaped it.

The fennec fox, with ears bigger than its head and a body small enough to fit in your hands, is Tunisia’s cutest desert icon. Playful at night and shy by day, it has become a symbol of adaptation in the Sahara.

Explore everyday objects used in Tunisian homes — clay vessels, olive wood utensils, woven baskets, and textiles shaped by climate and daily life.

Discover how shared meals, courtyard living, climate, and hospitality shape the everyday objects used in Tunisian homes.

In Tunisia, abortion is not a debate. It’s part of how the country was built; a system of trust that has quietly functioned for fifty years. Here, fairness lives in structure, not slogans; choice is handled with order, not noise.

In Tunisia, Gen Z moves between Arabic, French, and English like second nature. It’s not confusion, it’s identity. This is the quiet intelligence of a generation fluent in context, rhythm, and belonging.

Sidi Bou Saïd’s blue and white were not imported or invented : they were lived. Long before decrees or myths, locals painted for light, salt, and climate. This is the quiet truth behind Tunisia’s most photographed village.

Tunisia is often described as “in between” — Africa and Europe, Arab and Mediterranean, desert and sea. Yet “in between” feels too static. Tunisia stands as a threshold — a living doorway where worlds meet and balance.

Tunisia is often compared to Morocco or Egypt. But Tunisia already gives the world fouta, harissa, carpets, couscous, and more. My Chakchouka shows it whole — sovereign in its own logic.