There was little to enchant me on my journey from Rome to the legendary, and alleged, land of the Lotus Eaters – the Tunisian island of Djerba. On the second leg of the journey, from Tunis to the ...

Six people have been killed after an attack near a synagogue on Tunisia’s Djerba island that draws hundreds of Jews from Europe and Israel during an annual pilgrimage each year. The attack on Tuesday ...

TUNIS, Tunisia — UNESCO announced Monday it was adding the Tunisian resort island of Djerba to its list of World Heritage Sites because of its ancient ruins, whitewashed villages, mosques, churches ...

The UN cultural agency UNESCO on Monday added Tunisia’s Djerba island to its list of World Heritage Sites. In a statement, The Tunisian Culture Ministry said the resort island was voted to the list ...

When school lets out, the streets around the ancient synagogue on this Tunisian island fill with rambunctious boys wearing Jewish kippahs and girls in long skirts, shouting to each other in Hebrew, ...

Two worshippers and three security officers have been killed in a gun attack near Africa's oldest synagogue, on the Tunisian island of Djerba. The attack took place during an annual pilgrimage to the ...

Jewish visitors light candles at the ancient Ghriba synagogue in May 2019. Mohamed Messara/EPA Many hundreds of years ago on the small Tunisian island of Djerba, a poor young Jewish woman called ...

DJERBA – These are busy times for Nissem Bittan, a Jewish jewellery salesman in the heart of the old city of Houmt Souk. Customers keep walking into his shop, which seems to be constructed solely out ...

On the island of Djerba–where, «close to hotels, under the beautiful palms, on the beaches and surrounding the white houses, putrid piles of garbage pollute the air, the water, the land, and the lives ...