ah, the mediterranean was once a major crossroads at the heart of the ancient world. today, it has become a barrier separating europe from africa. is there anything left of a past once, cher, and what do today's distinct cultures have in common? journalists, xena, l mos rock and joe power abdul karim, travel the coast of the mediterranean in search of answers to what do you see yourself as a tunisian junior youth with all the rights and responsibilities? how can you afford to see these animals? god help with join us to get to know the people and their dreams. a mediterranean journey

to day, my journey takes me to tunisia. it may be the smallest country in north africa, but it boasts diverse landscapes and with its rich cultural heritage. it's a microcosm of the mediterranean world. tenicia has around 12000000, resonates for 75 years. the country was a french protector. in the early 19 fifties, a depot gave us spearheaded the tradition independence movement. in 1959, he became tunisia 1st elected president daniel mangle. my look what are you the words busha you know you're in tunisia, you get all more precisely in the capital tunis roberts. it's incredibly beautiful climate. the sun is shining, and i'm looking forward to meeting rusty who lost the dance from. that's me. now when i watching the rusty, biggest me as a choreographer. and one of the very few mail belly dancers and tunis ever since

belly dancing was popularized in the west. and the 19th century female dancers have traced, sexist and oriental stereotypes. brushed, he plays with these cliches by slipping into the female rock. i caught up with him in the medina, tunis. the capitals, old town is a labyrinth of alleyways where carpet dealers, perfumes and shoe salesman ply their. where's the streets are full of young people with the law. i see that you love the old town. why? i love it because it's like me, myself is with the seller get ahead of time in the household. the ocean is tunis right here. rusty biggest me is rehearsing with the musician at the theater in the old town. i and it is what's this instrument called? it's a far how families are that they only exist in tunisia, just if you find

a drum like this, you know, it's from here, you know, anything like this on about. i know been our booker, the daughter book, guys bigger this. here's the tunisian tomlin i did about that. ah, i was in the that know initially tell me what moves you to dance italy unethical. i hadn't had to get it had been have been one reason he's down society's full view of how should i put a lot of man is bodies let his id is a national financial. okay. with a to b,

i sort of customer i which is this image of men that let us assume that as an affair bit that a man doesn't move or dance. he's one of the many stereotypes that existing arabic muslim country. most of the most um i think that ought to be a mozilla human element of the motto valley allah. and it will see out, for instance, on when i give a performance about eroticism will sexuality there and negative reactions from the audio him or at the principal and society and negative daniel quinn, selby that y s u o in the taboos that double blue tunisia again independence in 1956, but it took many decades and the arab spring for the country to start to transition to democracy. when it comes to women's rights, tunisia is one of the most liberal muslim countries in the region. though reforms are still sorely needed. ah,

fish dear for faith at heckman, i'm standing in front of bite on hickman. the house of wisdom seemed that house here in tunisia there are topics which many are reluctant to discuss out loud. thema, the koran is one of them. that's how, that's why i'm meeting with dr. celine for city, a researcher who has helped recontextualize the corolla, is yet hulu, in this library, like 5 thick volumes entitled the koran texts and it's variance. dr. celine worked on them for years, analyzing jewish and christian sources, as well as aramaic and syriac literature and the process. yet, the look coronel in the yearly nasdaq window and fool. the koran was revealed more than 1400 years ago. yet he knows that window of feldman. how does it need to change in the 2020 when i finished with us surely lazy me that i yet if he had that let the koran doesn't change. like was made that i have a lucky in the mentality about how we deal with the qur'an, must change he lives. he's those reading the koran today, and i will be to all,

to the way they approached the tests yonder way of thinking. i bet then will goodness, if you did, he should body on which method did you choose your car? here, jacqueline, nothing for any hulu. koranic verses should speak for themselves will, is not true. sammy mom or missionary, who sets out certain rules of faith that people should follow why. and at that moment we are when debate began in tune this year about men and women's rights regarding inheritance law, the islamic leaders of the old outside to name moscow, started spreading untruth. nick, we spoke of a clear on the ambiguity in this matter in the koran law. that means for that, maria, it's written that way in the corral, yvonne, there's nothing we can do about 18 am i in this case, they say there's no gender equality between men and women levels. and when it comes to equality, only god's justice matters. they believe it's god's will that women have a lower status than men. miller, as a mother, in your opinion, a hold on a home or any of your live hover. i say that the koran doesn't say that. so i only

housing parts of the koran and making a whole science out of it and put an eye on the other hand, take from the quran, that it is the will that essentially determines who is entitled to inherit name it are for hack on where if he and hook or something. oh no, you shouldn't claim to be idea, but only as at law can inherit men. who now, audrey cool, i think the koran says something completely different than these people do. murphy, who left the alleged i'm not clear on the ambiguity that doesn't exist on her. he hardly the one like a loop. jenny louise. oh man, shouldn't inherent more than a woman that it is leann leigh? right. okay, so i have a personal question for you. i ask away into the on, do you see yourself as a muslim, was lima. ha, ha ha, ha ha. and a committed one, but i think i'm closer to got than they are human than whom in men. min has people were there. so you levine,

i use that easy moms and she she left voice in the younger generation bit. yeah. and normally they see young people as marry a notice to be manipulative, hulu. adequate. my 1st day in tunisia is coming to an end. so many thoughts are going through my head this evening. this isn't the 1st time i've been to tunisia, but rarely have i experienced it as intensively as i have to day. one of the countries prettiest places as the artists village city beside them. and this is where tenacious middle and upper classes are at home, along tennis as mediterranean coast in the affluent suburb of carthage. the sandy beaches of lamesa are a popular destination for dates, rivers from tunis, looking to escape the hot and monkey inner city.

a nissan madame is a young fashioned designer from tunis with an ambitious goal. she wants to conquer the international market with annisa item. the fashion level she founded in 2016 i meet her, her parents house. a nisa, belongs to tunisia, predominantly french influenced upper class. she grew up in tunis and paris had studied fashion designed in new york. i'm thinking which one would i where? yet? you know yet i think i would go for this, this one the i with eyes. yeah very. this is very nice. i like it in that it inside a lid which is a region into nisa. ok. and the pattern is inspired by patterns on twitter. the behind the impulse. ok. okay. got it. so this is in hand woven by artisans in the mid enough genus. right. isn't that i'm working with?

i has been working with a his family has been working in stuck weaving for a 7 generation that the brand is called a nissan. yeah, it's your name on your site is mainly and i don't i that is my sister and my sister's name is said your view. my sister passed away in 2000 vandals lewis to true to hear that. yeah. she was living in missouri than she had a car accident before going to universe where so now you show your law for her through your what to yet. i and i want to try this 1 may of that see, but i feel like i'm doing karate or ninja, yeah. i yeah. in japanese of this kind of blowing as cold guy cookie. okay. and is there some kind of game or nobody is there warren for marshal ari? exactly. i feel like i'm a marshalls warrior or something. does this look good? yeah, really. yeah. i do also have

a version in new friend. it's really nice. i like the colors. why is it important for you to say? yeah, because of are also a lot of opportunities. you can find artisans, the law making incredible fangs. and so this is really a resource. so you want to support. i do when i say i show her what she needs. yeah. has been the has to say in 2010 to nisha underwent a period of great people, the self immolation of st vendor. mohammad boys easy provided the catalyst for what is known as the arab spring. after dictator been a leaf led the country tenicia held its 1st free elections much has changed since then. but many young tunisians still have no work and few prospects even with the 5 . it will be a lot of money that do you work? is it easy to find work? obama?

yes. but the problem is that the work is under pays out even if it's hard work with lots of working hours. are monday from a good look to the good you by because the on the rules. money level move. i think that's how that how much would you her minimal but 24 days weren't sure when you dinardo are you right on the 20 dinard? what's that in euros? 10 euros? no more like 7 euros. that's how it is. anyone who says differently is lying. the initial evidence that i owe, but who was there work all valid. will you find one or is it tough? austin, we have to wait a long time. i leave the capital tunis and head south home after travelling,

roughly 270 kilometers. i reached kanisha, 2nd largest city is fox. ah, it's an important commercial and industrial center, which is why the mediterranean isn't so clean here. mm. it's fox, as city center, i meet some young people who are trying to change that in this co working space, young start up, entrepreneurs meet regularly to find innovative solutions to environmental ecological and sustainability issues. and that is the powerful coffee and send a message that you're one of the founders of eco's own it goes on. so that's right lane, why focus on the eco cause? oh, okay, eco m e cause comes from ecology. like in facts, we have environmental issues and pollution. it's not

a healthy environment. so it was our goal to create a space in which a college and plays a role. and in which it's possible to exchange ideas about this diana p math. you can work here and they are also lectures, training sessions and gatherings finished him out, people work and at the same time get the chance to meet others. it's fatima. they can collaborate on projects or even produce them hen, y'all. and the yes, we hope that these projects which we, as the posing, will grow at some point, somebody who didn't with o y, a harsh, i croon and her colleagues are helping young entrepreneurs found startups. so number 2, they show them how to create a business plan that explained product development tools and most of all love to help them market themselves. yuma. yeah, animal the doesn't the muscle bolt that is mchugh alo, the duke. yet. and, and tell him on off to la la marsan, why did you decide to go into business for yourself? for one of the things i've noticed in tunisia is that many people aim to become

civil servants. yes. then be entrepreneurship. isn't that popular for sure? which one you want to do this on a, as an entrepreneur, you give it your own up for now you have the opportunity to be active in your field and change things for the better in the my field is medicine. this is an entrepreneur, i can, for example, develop an app to reach people that accepted obvious. i live on fees. one of the challenges indonesia of the very high unemployment. if you, if you're with allah. com, i many young people have trouble finding a job o v a. and chavez without. what do you think can be done to solve that? elizabeth, you should huddle as to what i can put down will of a beloved he till we shipping globally in terms of retail to a. so the infrastructure is missing 1st. if you listen, yes it's missing entirely. spread out the state must give us the chance to pass on . i'm only shot internationally as well, but the subtle, anybody else,

let me know it. you nicea is known more for it's human capital than full results is like oil. some things with it's nice to see how these young people are taking the initiative themselves rather than waiting for the government to change things from sparks i had north again to number or something. typically tunisia awaits me. glue sticks to here. yes. i'm in a her mom. normally i wouldn't be sitting here fully dressed. comedy tunisians usually come here for some are in our planet, but this time are decided to do something different. and she than i'm going to have a facial mask because i'm looking quite tired luggage fund. i'm curious how i'll look afterwards about since i'm acting as a guinea pig. oh,

that jetta you're going to try that out on me. chima a t as training to be of your titian. now tell him what you're going to do today of what am i getting now and our jail mask massage that he normally modules a type of clay, right? exactly. a lot of in that bundle, it's in medicinal play that we mix with rose water and orange blossom extract orange. we mix that with the odd jill to make a very smooth facial mask. we can hold it, brightens, and moisturize as the skin and cleanses it, which is why we sometimes rub it on the entire body in the steam bath may work. it helps combat wrinkles and has an anti aging effect on gazing. oh yes, i'm the aging. i mean, i sure what does that her mom mean to you as an amendment either going to the her mom is

a typically tune. is he in constant pleasant, good, old chinese eons. go to the her mom once a week. i love it was full of what came are committed to have stainless from the facts it, in the old days, people didn't have running water at home or good sanitary facilities. what would them hot on my those men with men and women together? muscle jo, separately, i want a dog stare at times for men and others for women of but at the same her mom just a different time, laughlin is then there are her mom's just for men or women where her blah, blah, blah, this is my, this is my 1st mascot ever, ever, ever, ever, stephanie busy, but i never thought i'd have a facial, but okay, whatever me ha, quade, quade. 2 he says, fail him to wait for 10 minutes and can't even more talk about that stuff for me. when i grit my teeth and get on with it, tenicia doesn't have

a dual education system like germany does apprentices on the job rather than attending vocational schools. i'm looking for bull, even if someone says they have 2 years of training, we often find on the job that he or she can do little when you ask them, do you know how to do this so that you soon notice they don't match ethan. they haven't been shown how to do the simplest things. there's no professional training here that so good. it's really good to know. is it good or? yeah, yes, her perfect. really nice and with it is 10 years younger. santiago they say i look 10 years younger. so i feel better at any rate or how it looks um yeah. yeah. but

you're happy with the result and then it's perfect. uh huh. and refreshed and feeling a decade younger, i leave no booth and head for jad about north africa's largest island. settled since antiquity, it has its own distinct culture. while the coastal towns are full of tourists, life in the islands interior is still very traditional. it's friday market day in the village of eddie yacht. everywhere you see the straw hats, which are typically for jet above the street, our project jet above what took place here in 2014150 artists from all over the world came to create colorful murals on 80 odds white balls in this village, jews, and muslims have lived side by side relatively peacefully for centuries. it's been

an air yet all i'm at eod. and if you listen closely in the background, you hear the friday prayer. i was david all but jews also. they appear such and i'm standing in front of the law, the boss synagogue visits white house. you used to be able to walk through here without rigorous security check sites. but that changed in 2002 by in the synagogue was the target of terror attacks, lack of these integral, but before world war to some 100000 jews. lifted tunisia during the german occupation. thousands of jews were killed or turned in camps after the war. many felt unwelcome and left clearly sits by mia holidays. what he is with me now if he says he's responsible for this synagogue on chat about ice, literally it's called ladiva hand or the stranger lead. the synagogues conduct a bar. why is it named the stranger? because it contains a stone from jerusalem. i shall hush as well. they brought a stone from jerusalem. incense this stone comes from a foreign country. they enter, they promote a stone, but they don't say return from just that it came from

a broad. yep. so folks call the synagogue log reba or the stranger. and how old is the synagogue and cynical con, around 2600 years old. 2600 years. it's africa's oldest synagogue. each year the synagogue becomes a place of pilgrimage for jews from around the world. they come here to celebrate the religious holiday log bowman. many of them have roots in tunisia. ah, on friday in the village of eddie odd on july, the preparing for the sabbath. there's of buds of excitement going on the street vendors or selling homemade cakes. the children get sweets and i just can't resist the video. and i saw there were sweet treats here and i just

had to come and try a typical jewish treats from jabber. we prepare them, push a bond with the table. i run a good and as fresh look, this is still going from the albany. the han, warm, the name of the not take half a piece of the stuff. all of us. oh, that jewish tradition is still thriving on january is a testament to mutual tolerance. the vast majority of jet as residents are muslims, or more precisely the bodies. but sometimes there's no escaping, will call it. even on a small island in the mediterranean, north american, idly, there's war between arabs and israel and that causes a lot of confusion. some people think where is rain is but we have nothing to do with his rent by nazis. riley's, which you nicea every time though because you're jewish,

they come you in israel and get their fax mixed up with a little more when you say to them, i know my in touch with them either. i did, i have nothing to do with all those that i thought they were should with or did that. do you feel tunisian as well as jewish yahoo, the beth watching him at home, of course on t, uneasy and with all the rights and responsibilities that everyone else a conference call education, all those right. ah, my trip is coming to an end. and i must leave tunisia, it's fledging democracy behind and he said he has it still. and so looking back, what really impressed me with the motivation of the young people about the energy of the dancers, the,

and i believe this country has enormous potential business and like as the country's greatest crank, it's people stacks of us and, and hudson, and the people here are incredibly motivated and want to change things and that's what i'm going to take away with me. ah ah ah ah, with

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