{"id":184142,"date":"2024-11-08T01:16:22","date_gmt":"2024-11-07T23:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-president-kais-saied-stresses-need-to-reform-tunisias-international-festivals-to-regain-prominence\/"},"modified":"2024-11-08T01:16:22","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T23:16:22","slug":"tunisia-president-kais-saied-stresses-need-to-reform-tunisias-international-festivals-to-regain-prominence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-president-kais-saied-stresses-need-to-reform-tunisias-international-festivals-to-regain-prominence\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia: President Kais Saied Stresses Need to Reform Tunisia&#8217;s International Festivals to Regain Prominence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Tunis, Nov. 5 \u2014 President Kais Saied stressed the crucial importance of culture during a meeting with Minister of Culture Amina Srarfi at the Carthage Palace on Tuesday, saying that culture is a &#8220;sovereign sector.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">\u00abWithout a national culture, many goals cannot be achieved, including the fight against intellectual alienation and all kinds of extremism that obscure free thought,\u00bb he was quoted as saying in a statement from the Presidency of the Republic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">The Head of State stressed that&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202411070024.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Tunisia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/tunisia\/\">Tunisia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tunis, Nov. 5 \u2014 President Kais Saied stressed the crucial importance of culture during a meeting with Minister of Culture Amina Srarfi at the Carthage Palace on Tuesday, saying that culture is a &#8220;sovereign sector.&#8221; \u00abWithout a national culture, many goals cannot be achieved, including the fight against intellectual alienation and all kinds of extremism [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":184143,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[258,256,8214,4337,30747,257,2450,49922,6099,10237,30748,254,9104,4703,653,6684],"class_list":["post-184142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tunisia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-festivals","tag-international","tag-kais","tag-news","tag-president","tag-prominence","tag-reform","tag-regain","tag-saied","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stresses","tag-tunisia","tag-tunisia-news","tag-tunisias"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}