A dark portrait of Leila Trabelsi

Tunisians angrily remember the abuses of those closest to ex-president Ben Ali. A new book charges his wife Leila Trabelsi with being a manipulative bully. Also, a circus troupe from Tunisia arrives in Paris to tell the story of what they saw of the revolution. Finally, children in the heart of the rebel stronghold in Libya are learning how to keep a community together in the face of conflict.

24/04/2010 - THE WEEK IN MAGHREB

Algeria: 30 years after the Berber Spring

In this edition: Berber activists in Algeria use the 30th anniversary of a Berber uprising to call for autonomy for their region of Kabylie; empty seats at an international conference on natural gas in Algeria’s second city of Oran as a cloud of volcanic ash over Europe’s skies disrupts travel; and a bumper harvest for Moroccan farmers after 15 years of drought.

17/04/2010 - THE WEEK IN MAGHREB

Algeria: violent attacks on women

In this edition: women in the south-eastern Algerian city of Hassi Massaoud are being terrorised by a series of attacks and rapes; questions over the status of Western Sahara - the UN mission there is scheduled to finish at the end of the month, but in the space of almost two decades little progress has been made; and it's come out, but it's shrouded in secrecy - Morocco's first gay magazine.

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11/04/2010 - THE WEEK IN MAGHREB

Algeria: the tale of a whistleblower

The algerian whistleblower- A former justice ministry employee is given a prison sentence.. this after he accused government employees of fabricating heroic pasts as Algerian resistance fighters. Remembering his legacy. Former tusnisian President Habib Bourguiba. it's been a decade since the death of the man they call Tunisia's father. And a look at this year's Desert Marathon in Morocco. It's nicknamed "the toughest race on earth".

05/04/2010 - THE WEEK IN MAGHREB

Morocco: Christians expelled for "proselytising"

A focus on Morocco this week. The authorities expell foreign nationals - accusing them of trying to convert people to Christianity. She's been dubbed Morocco's youngest political prisoner - Zahra Boudkour will spend at least another 2 years behind bars. And finally we take you inside what Tunisians are calling the most beautiful cave in the world.

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27/03/2010 - THE WEEK IN MAGHREB

Islamist leaders released in Libya

In Libya, the leaders of an islamist group were released from jail. It's part of a strategy of national reconciliation, to try and reintegrate militants and weaken Al Qaeda's influence. He was the head of one of Morocco's most respected publications. Ali Ammar had to close his magazine, Le Journal Hebdomadaire, and flee to France. Our reporters went to meet him. And we take the trip down the dangerous coal mines of Jerada in Eastern Morocco, where some 2.000 workers risk their lives everyday.