Réalités

*Réalités*
Editor-in-chief	Zyed Krichen
Categories	Magazine
Frequency	Weekly
Circulation	23,500 (2006)
Publisher	Taïeb Zahar
First issue	1979; 45 years ago
Company	Maghreb Media
Country	Tunisia
Language	French, Arabic
Website	Realites.com.tn

Réalités (حقائق meaning Realities in English) is a weekly French-language Tunisian news magazine.

History and profile

An independent magazine, it is published by Maghreb Media each Thursday. It was founded in 1979 by Taïeb Zahar and quickly became an important element of Tunisian national media.

The magazine is published weekly and offers news.^[1] It also covers investigative reports.^[2]

Following the publication of an article on prison conditions in its December 2002 issue the staff writer was forced to leave the magazine.^[3] On 30 December 2010, during the protests, the magazine published an article, praising of the family members of the former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.^[4]

In 2005, an Arabic version began to be published. Its columnists/editors are Taïeb Zahar, Pascal Boniface, Ridha Lahmar, Hakim Ben Hammouda, Zyed Krichen and Foued Zaouche.

Its 1994 circulation was 25,000 copies.^[1] As of June 2006, the magazine had a circulation of 23,500, with 9,500 subscribers.

In 2014 its editor of the culture section, Hanene Zbiss, won the Samir Kassir Award for Freedom of the Press by the European Union for his report entitled “Quranic kindergartens in Tunisia”.^[2]^[5]

References

^ ^a ^b James Phillip Jeter (January 1996). International Afro Mass Media: A Reference Guide. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 129. ISBN 978-0-313-28400-7. Retrieved 11 October 2014.
^ ^a ^b "Journalists from Egypt, Tunisia and Syria win the 2014 Samir Kassir Award". The Daily Star. Beirut. 3 June 2014. Retrieved 11 October 2014.
^ Roland Lank (18 February 2003). "Tunisia: 'Seven Versions of Pravda'". World Press. Tunis. Retrieved 12 October 2014.
^ Fatima el-Issawi (July 2012). "Tunisian Media in Transition" (PDF). Carnegie Endowment. Retrieved 11 October 2014.
^ "Working with Le Monde to aid Tunisian journalism". Google Blog. 10 August 2012. Retrieved 11 October 2014.