How markets in Tunisia function as points of exchange, access, and daily circulation between land and households. Markets How food enters Tunisian households through everyday coordination. Rhythms Are Repeated Shopping follows a pattern. The same paths are taken. The same stalls are visited. The same days and times return. These rhythms reduce uncertainty. Food is obtained without planning each time anew. Familiarity Narrows Choice Most decisions are already made. Households return to vendors they know. Quality is assumed rather than compared. Choice is narrowed through habit, not evaluation. The market becomes smaller over time. Trust Replaces Explanation Transactions do not require justification. Vendor reputation substitutes for labels. Recognition replaces inspection. Words are few. Understanding is shared. Food changes hands without ceremony. Negotiation Is Minimal Exchange is not confrontational. Prices are accepted. Adjustments, when they happen, are quiet. Silence is part of the process. So is continuity. The goal is not advantage. It is stability. Absence Does Not Escalate When something is unavailable, the search ends. Another item is chosen. Or the meal changes. Markets signal availability, not promise fulfillment. Adaptation is expected. What This Makes Possible Because markets coordinate rather than stimulate, provisioning remains light. Food enters the home without pressure. Meals are shaped by what appears. The system absorbs variation without disruption.

Ceramic tableware, olive wood utensils, and everyday kitchen objects used across Tunisia. Built for daily use, shared meals, and repeated handling. Kitchen & Table Bowls, plates, and tools for daily use This category brings together ceramic tableware, olive wood utensils, and everyday kitchen objects used across Tunisian homes. They are used individually and together, as bowls, plates, and serving pieces that support how meals are prepared and shared. Each piece follows a material, a place, and a way of making that shapes how it is handled and used over time. How to start Start with a bowl and a plate. They cover most daily use. Add a serving piece for shared meals. Bring in olive wood tools for preparation and serving. Zephyr Bowl Price €39.00 ADD TO CART Storka Bowl Price €34.00 ADD TO CART Zerka Plate Price €42.00 ADD TO CART Hout Plate Price €49.00 ADD TO CART Understand the objects They follow materials, regions, and ways of making that shape how they are used. Objects Materials Regions Artisans Delivery & support Delivery, returns, and support follow a clear structure aligned with how these objects are made and handled. You can find details through Support , delivery, and Returns .

Explore four unique hand-built Sejnane pottery sculptures by Tunisian potter Hadda Saidani, including painted, earth-toned, and dark human figures. Sejnane Pottery Sculptures Hand-Built Human Figures by Hadda Saidani This collection brings together four unique human figures made by potter and sculptor Hadda Saidani in Sejnane, Tunisia. Each sculpture is formed by hand without a potter’s wheel, stands independently, and measures approximately 30 centimetres high. Although they share a maker and material tradition, they differ considerably in proportion, modelling, decoration, and surface. Explore the Sculptures Painted Sejnane Woman Sculpture An extensively painted woman figure with joined hands, modelled facial features, jewellery-like details, and geometric markings. View the Sculpture Earth-Toned Sejnane Standing Figure An elongated standing figure with a restrained body, modelled face, and irregular cream, ochre, brown, and dark tonal variation. View the Sculpture Dark Sejnane Standing Figure A narrow standing figure with a rounded head, prominent ears, modelled facial features, and a deeply dark surface. View the Sculpture Dark Sejnane Woman Sculpture A broader woman figure with modelled breasts, long curved arms, prominent facial features, and a predominantly black surface. View the Sculpture Four Figures, Four Individual Forms The four sculptures belong together, but they are not variations of one standard design. The painted woman figure divides the body into distinct areas through facial details, clothing, joined hands, jewellery-like elements, and geometric markings. The earth-toned figure takes a more restrained direction. Its elongated body carries irregular cream, ochre, brown, and dark tonal variation, while its face and shoulders emerge through direct modelling. The dark standing figure is similarly elongated but has a rounded head, narrow body, and deep black surface. Its expression is created through the modelling of the eyes, nose, mouth, and ears rather than painted detail. The fourth sculpture is broader and more explicitly modelled. Its breasts, curved arms, rounded torso, and facial features give it a different physical presence from the three upright figures beside it. Together, the works show that Hadda does not rely on one fixed treatment of the human form. Each figure develops through its own relationship among body, face, surface, and decoration. Made by Hadda Saidani To play, press and hold the enter key. To stop, release the enter key. Hadda Saidani is a potter and sculptor from Sejnane in northern Tunisia. Her practice includes earthenware vessels and individually modelled human figures. These sculptures are not anonymous examples of a collective style. They are works made by Hadda and shaped through her own decisions about proportion, expression, surface, and upright form. The collection provides one view into the breadth of her practice: from extensive painted detail to restrained modelling and deeply dark surfaces. Meet Hadda Saidani and explore her work Made Without a Potter’s Wheel The figures are built by hand rather than thrown on a rotating wheel or produced through industrial moulds. This method allows the body to develop through direct contact between the maker and the clay. Changes in pressure, proportion, thickness, and balance remain connected to the act of shaping. Small asymmetries, modelling traces, and variations across the surface are therefore part of how each individual figure was made. The wider pottery tradition of Sejnane draws on women’s knowledge of local clay, hand-building, surface preparation, decoration, drying, and firing. This knowledge has supported domestic vessels, animal forms, dolls, human figures, and other sculptural objects. See how Sejnane pottery is made without a wheel . Surface and Variation The collection includes extensively painted, earth-toned, and deeply dark surfaces. Across the four figures, cream, ochre, brown, grey, and black tones appear in different combinations. Some surfaces carry drawn geometric details, while others allow modelling, texture, and tonal variation to define the object. Sejnane pottery uses natural colouring and firing methods capable of producing varied surface effects. Variations in colour, texture, modelling, and sheen belong to the individual sculptures and should not be interpreted as manufacturing defects. Explore Sejnane Pottery Understand the Tradition Explore the materials, knowledge, forms, and women-led practices that define Sejnane pottery. Discover Sejnane Pottery Follow the Making Process See how clay is prepared, shaped, decorated, dried, and fired without a potter’s wheel. The Village Where Pottery Is Still Made Without a Wheel Meet the Maker Discover Hadda Saidani’s practice and the individual forms documented through her work. Meet Hadda Saidani

The Northwest Highlands of Tunisia, defined by green relief, open land, and a steady, grounded pace of life. Northwest Highlands Green relief, open land, and steady pace. Orientation Snapshot Elevated terrain with wide horizons One of the greenest regions in the country Towns and villages spaced without compression A region associated with walking, grazing, and staying outdoors Operating Conditions The land remains accessible throughout the year Seasons change temperature and light Life unfolds at the pace the land naturally sets Reality Pins This is the only region in Tunisia where snowfall is a regular winter feature Rain sustains agriculture without intensive intervention Forests, fields, and hills remain visibly continuous Material & Making Implications Stone construction reflects terrain and climate Wood, wool, and clay remain familiar materials Making follows land availability and use Objects prioritize durability and daily handling Repair and continuity outweigh novelty Handoff Materials emerge from land, weather, and daily use. Objects reflect openness, patience, and continuity.

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Learn about the founder and steward of My Chakchouka, the responsibilities of stewardship, and how continuity, governance, and institutional development are maintained over time. Founder & Steward The Steward Relationship To The Institution Responsibilities Of Stewardship Stewardship Going Forward The Steward Institutions require continuity. Relationships need to be maintained. Responsibilities need to be carried. Decisions need to be approached consistently over time. Without stewardship, even well-designed institutions can gradually lose coherence as priorities shift and responsibilities become fragmented. For this reason, My Chakchouka includes the role of steward. The steward exists to help maintain continuity across the institution. This responsibility extends beyond any single product, contributor, article, or initiative. It involves helping preserve the relationships, principles, systems, and long-term direction that give the institution its coherence. Stewardship is therefore not understood as ownership of the institution. Nor is it understood as authority over the people who participate within it. It is understood as a responsibility to help maintain the conditions through which the institution can continue to operate, evolve, and remain aligned with its purpose. At present, this role is carried by Safouane Ben Haj Ali, founder of My Chakchouka. The role emerged alongside the institution itself. As the institution developed, the responsibility for maintaining continuity, coordinating relationships, developing systems, documenting knowledge, and guiding long-term direction became part of the stewardship function. The decision to carry stewardship emerged from the institution's needs rather than from a desire for personal prominence. As My Chakchouka developed, someone needed to assume responsibility for maintaining coherence across its different parts and helping ensure that its relationships, principles, and long-term direction remained connected over time. The steward participates within the institution rather than standing apart from it. Like other contributors, the steward forms part of the broader ecosystem. What distinguishes the role is not status, but responsibility. For this reason, the steward is best understood not through personal biography, but through the responsibilities associated with maintaining the institution over time. Relationship To The Institution The relationship between the steward and My Chakchouka is one of responsibility rather than ownership. The institution emerged through the work of its founder, and many of its early structures, systems, and directions were shaped through that process. As a result, the steward remains closely connected to the institution's development and ongoing evolution. At the same time, the institution is not understood as an extension of a single individual. My Chakchouka contains contributors, knowledge, products, practices, relationships, and responsibilities that extend beyond any one participant. The role of the steward is therefore not to become the institution, but to help maintain its coherence as these different realities interact and evolve. This relationship involves participation at multiple levels. The steward contributes to documentation, governance, representation, system development, institutional direction, and the maintenance of relationships across the ecosystem. These responsibilities create a close connection to many parts of the institution, while also requiring attention to the institution as a whole rather than to any single component. The relationship also evolves over time. As contributors participate, systems mature, and new forms of knowledge emerge, the institution becomes shaped by a growing number of people and relationships. Stewardship remains important, but the realities being stewarded become increasingly broader than the individual carrying the role. For this reason, the relationship between the steward and the institution is best understood as a relationship of service. The steward helps maintain continuity, direction, and responsibility within the institution, while recognizing that the institution itself is larger than any single contributor, including the steward. The purpose of stewardship is therefore not to place the institution around a person. It is to help ensure that the institution can continue to develop beyond one. Responsibilities Of Stewardship Stewardship carries a broad range of responsibilities because the institution itself contains many interconnected realities. Products, knowledge, contributors, practices, systems, relationships, and governance structures do not exist independently of one another. Maintaining continuity across these different parts of the institution requires ongoing attention to how they evolve, interact, and remain connected over time. One responsibility of stewardship is continuity. This involves helping preserve the principles, relationships, and institutional direction that provide coherence across the ecosystem. Continuity does not mean resisting change. It means helping ensure that change remains connected to the purpose and responsibilities that shaped the institution in the first place. Another responsibility is coordination. Different contributors, initiatives, systems, and forms of knowledge often intersect in ways that require alignment. Stewardship helps maintain connections between these different realities so that they can operate as parts of a broader whole rather than as isolated components. Stewardship also involves documentation. Knowledge, decisions, relationships, and institutional developments require documentation if they are to remain understandable over time. Stewardship helps support the creation, maintenance, and organization of this institutional memory. Responsibility for governance forms another part of the role. The steward helps maintain the frameworks through which accountability, representation, transparency, and fairness are approached within the institution. This responsibility does not place the steward above governance. It includes helping ensure that governance itself remains visible, understandable, and capable of evolving when necessary. Stewardship also requires long-term attention. Many institutional decisions produce consequences that extend beyond immediate circumstances. Stewardship involves considering not only present needs, but also the future continuity, resilience, and development of the institution. These responsibilities are connected by a common purpose. The role of the steward is not to control every aspect of the institution. It is to help maintain the conditions through which contributors, knowledge, products, practices, and relationships can continue to develop within a coherent and responsible framework. For this reason, stewardship is best understood not as a position of authority, but as an ongoing responsibility to the institution and the realities it exists to serve. Stewardship Going Forward Stewardship exists within time. Institutions evolve. Contributors participate. Knowledge expands. Relationships develop. As these realities change, stewardship must evolve alongside them. For this reason, stewardship is not understood as a fixed arrangement tied permanently to a particular moment in the institution's history. The responsibilities of stewardship remain important, but the ways in which those responsibilities are carried may continue to develop as the institution grows and matures. As participation expands, stewardship increasingly involves maintaining conditions through which contributors, systems, knowledge, and relationships can continue to operate coherently across a broader ecosystem. This evolution is not a departure from stewardship. It is part of stewardship itself. The purpose of the role is not to preserve a particular structure indefinitely. It is to help maintain continuity while allowing the institution to adapt responsibly to new realities, participants, and forms of contribution. Over time, the institution may contain more contributors, more knowledge, more represented people, more systems, and more relationships than any single individual could fully oversee alone. For this reason, stewardship should not be understood as dependence on one person. It should be understood as a commitment to continuity, responsibility, and institutional development over time. The long-term goal is not to make the institution inseparable from its steward. The long-term goal is to help build an institution capable of enduring, evolving, and remaining coherent beyond any single contributor, including the person who currently carries the stewardship role. In this sense, stewardship looks toward the future not by centering the steward, but by helping ensure that the institution can continue to grow beyond one.

How the kitchen functions in Tunisia as a daily working space shaped by routine, tools, and available resources. The Kitchen How Tunisian kitchens function as operating systems. Work Happens in Layers Cooking does not proceed step by step. Some tasks require attention. Others are left to run. Heat is set. Time is allowed to pass. Hands move elsewhere. The kitchen operates through simultaneity. Attention Is Distributed Not everything is watched closely. Some processes are checked occasionally. Others demand focus only at specific moments. Attention shifts without pause. Nothing waits for total concentration. The system is designed for partial focus. Waiting Is Used Time between actions is not empty. While something cooks, other tasks happen. Preparation, cleaning, and arrangement overlap. The kitchen does not stop between steps. It flows. Sequences Are Known Movements repeat daily. Ingredients are placed where they will be reached again. Tools return to the same positions. These patterns are not discussed. They are relied upon. The kitchen remembers what the cook does not need to. Constraints Are Absorbed Space is limited. Heat is shared. Time is uneven. Rather than resisting these limits, the kitchen adapts around them. Tasks are ordered to avoid collision. Only one thing at a time requires full attention. What This Makes Possible Because execution is distributed, cooking does not exhaust focus. Meals are prepared alongside other activities. Life continues while food is made. The kitchen does not demand attention. It accommodates it.

Explore handmade Tunisian objects for the home and table — ceramics, olive wood, textiles, pantry goods, and everyday objects shaped by materials, regions, and use. Shop Handmade Tunisian objects for home, table, and daily use. Find your entry point Categories Rituals Sets New arrivals Gifts All products Objects, by type Table Basketry Pantry Textiles Home Jewelry Start with something you know you’ll use Zephyr Bowl Price €39.00 Storka Bowl Price €34.00 Zerka Plate Price €42.00 Hout Plate Price €49.00 View all objects Understand the objects Materials Use Regions Artisans Ordering and delivery We ship from Tunisia to selected destinations. Delivery times vary depending on location and carrier, and most orders arrive within a few days to a couple of weeks. See shipping details . Each object is packed by hand, using materials suited to its form and weight, so it arrives as it left. If something arrives damaged or not as expected, we’ll resolve it. See returns & refunds . If you have a question before or after ordering, you can contact us directly. How these objects make sense Some of them are obvious. Others take a moment. If you’re curious, you can follow the logic behind them — how they’re used, where they come from, and why they exist the way they do. Explore object logic

Explore media coverage, interviews, features, mentions, and other forms of press connected to My Chakchouka and its activities. Press About Press Press Coverage Media Principles About Press The Press page brings together media coverage, features, interviews, mentions, and other forms of press connected to My Chakchouka. These forms of coverage represent one way through which the institution becomes visible beyond itself. They document how publications, journalists, media organizations, and other external actors have discussed, featured, referenced, or engaged with aspects of the institution's work. The page serves as a point of exploration for understanding the institution's media relationships and the coverage that has emerged through them. Each press entry can be explored as part of a broader external context that connects the institution to publications, audiences, organizations, and conversations beyond its own website. The purpose of this page is not simply to gather media mentions in one place. It is to document how the institution has been covered and discussed through external media over time. Press Coverage The coverage gathered within this page reflects media relationships that have emerged through the institution's activities, participation, products, contributors, and broader development. Each entry provides a pathway for understanding how aspects of the institution have been discussed, documented, featured, or referenced by external publications, journalists, media organizations, and other actors. Explore the press coverage below. Programme Diasporactive: Retour au bercail La Presse de Tunisie De l’international à la Tunisie L'instant M Media Principles Media coverage provides context, but it does not provide complete understanding. Articles, features, interviews, mentions, and other forms of press can help document how aspects of an institution have been discussed, interpreted, or presented by external publications and media organizations. They make certain external relationships visible and help record how the institution has appeared beyond its own channels. At the same time, media coverage should not be confused with institutional value. Coverage can reflect interest, relevance, timing, visibility, or editorial decisions. It does not fully explain the significance of an institution, the quality of its work, or the realities it seeks to document. For this reason, media coverage should be approached as a source of context rather than a source of proof. Press entries help visitors understand how the institution has been discussed and represented within external media environments. They do not replace direct engagement with the institution's contributors, products, governance, knowledge, practices, or relationships. Media coverage is most useful when understood alongside the realities being covered. An article gains meaning when connected to the work it discusses. A feature gains meaning when connected to the people, products, or ideas it presents. A mention gains meaning when connected to the broader context in which it appears. The purpose of this page is therefore not to establish legitimacy through media attention. Its purpose is to document media relationships and make them easier to understand within their proper context. Press becomes part of the institution's external record rather than a substitute for it.

Learn how My Chakchouka approaches fairness through relationship design, contributor representation, attribution, responsibility, and institutional structure. Fair System Why Relationships Need Structure How Relationships Are Approached How The System Is Applied Where The System Evolves Why Relationships Need Structure Relationships do not operate in isolation. Whenever people, knowledge, products, places, and practices are brought together within a shared institution, questions inevitably emerge about representation, responsibility, attribution, visibility, and decision-making. Good intentions alone do not resolve these questions. Different responsibilities may point in different directions. Contributors may have different expectations. Knowledge may require context. Representation may involve difficult choices about scope, accuracy, and visibility. As institutions grow, these questions become more frequent rather than less. For this reason, relationships require structure. Structure does not exist to remove judgment or eliminate complexity. It exists to provide a framework through which decisions can be approached consistently and responsibilities can be understood more clearly. Within My Chakchouka, the Fair System exists because fairness cannot be assumed to emerge automatically from participation, visibility, or goodwill. Fairness is not treated as an outcome that can be guaranteed. It is treated as an ongoing practice of designing relationships thoughtfully and reviewing them continuously as the institution evolves. The purpose of structure is therefore not control. It is clarity. A shared framework that helps relationships remain understandable, accountable, and capable of evolving over time. How Relationships Are Approached Relationships within My Chakchouka are approached as connections rather than transactions. Contributors, knowledge, products, places, and practices each enter the institution from different realities. They carry different histories, responsibilities, expectations, and forms of value. The purpose of the Fair System is not to reduce these differences, but to create a framework through which they can be approached responsibly and fairly. This begins with recognition. Contributors are approached as people rather than resources. Knowledge is approached as something that requires context rather than extraction. Products are approached as expressions of broader relationships rather than isolated objects. Places and practices are approached as realities that exist beyond the institution itself. It also requires balance. Visibility must be balanced with accuracy. Representation must be balanced with context. Growth must be balanced with responsibility. Fairness often emerges through the careful balancing of competing responsibilities rather than the pursuit of a single objective. Relationships are therefore approached as ongoing rather than fixed. As contributors evolve, as knowledge expands, and as the institution changes, relationships must be revisited, reviewed, and sometimes restructured. Fairness depends not on preserving a static arrangement, but on maintaining the capacity to adapt responsibly over time. For this reason, the Fair System is not understood as a set of permanent rules. It is understood as an evolving framework for approaching relationships with clarity, responsibility, fairness, and attention to the realities from which they emerge. How The System Is Applied The Fair System is applied through the decisions that shape relationships within the institution. One area of application is contributor representation. Decisions about how contributors are documented, how their work is presented, and how their contributions are connected to products and knowledge are approached through the broader responsibilities outlined within the Governance pillar. Another area is attribution. Knowledge, experience, work, and contribution are not treated as detached resources. Whenever appropriate, the institution seeks to maintain visible connections between a contribution and the people, places, practices, or realities from which it emerges. The system is also applied through questions of scope and visibility. Not every subject can be documented equally. Not every contributor can be represented immediately. Decisions about priority, inclusion, and focus require judgment. The Fair System helps provide a framework through which these decisions can be approached consistently rather than arbitrarily. Relationships between different parts of the institution are another area of application. Products, contributors, knowledge, places, and practices are approached as connected realities rather than independent categories. The system encourages decisions that strengthen those connections rather than separating them unnecessarily. Application does not guarantee perfect outcomes. Reasonable people may disagree about representation, visibility, priority, or interpretation. The purpose of the Fair System is not to eliminate disagreement. It is to provide a framework through which decisions can be explained, reviewed, and improved over time. In this sense, the Fair System functions less as a mechanism for enforcing fairness and more as a structure for approaching relationships responsibly. Where The System Evolves The Fair System is not treated as a finished framework. Relationships change. Contributors evolve. Knowledge expands. New forms of participation emerge. As the institution grows, new questions appear that could not have been anticipated when earlier decisions were made. For this reason, fairness cannot be reduced to a fixed set of rules. A system that remains unchanged regardless of circumstance may achieve consistency, but consistency alone does not guarantee responsible outcomes. New realities often require existing assumptions, priorities, and structures to be revisited. Evolution therefore forms part of the Fair System itself. The goal is not to preserve every decision indefinitely. The goal is to maintain a framework capable of learning, adapting, and improving while remaining connected to the responsibilities that justified it in the first place. This does not mean that every change is an improvement. Revision requires judgment just as much as stability does. Some structures deserve to be maintained. Others may need to evolve. The responsibility of the system is not to prefer change or permanence, but to remain responsive to the realities it exists to serve. For this reason, fairness is not understood as a destination that can be reached once and permanently secured. It is an ongoing practice of reviewing relationships, questioning assumptions, and refining structures as the institution continues to evolve. The Fair System remains open not because it is incomplete, but because the relationships it supports are never static. Description of Mechanics Dignity at scale is not a belief. It is a structural outcome. Fair System describes how value, price, money, risk, margin, dependency, exit, and labor are handled as this system grows. VALUE ENTRY When value enters the system. PAYMENT TIMING When money moves. MARGIN CONTAINMENT How spread is bounded. EXIT INTEGRITY How relationships end. PRICE FORMATION Where price authority is located. RISK ABSORPTION Where failure lands. DEPENDENCY AVOIDANCE How reversibility is preserved. LABOR CONTINUITY How capacity persists over time. "Injustice brings about the ruin of civilization." – Ibn Khaldun