Le Renouveau
{{Short description|Daily newspaper in Tunisia (1988–2011)}}
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| founder = Constitutional Democratic Rally
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| foundation = 20 March 1988
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| language = French
| ceased publication = 2011
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Le Renouveau ("The Renewal") was a newspaper published in Tunis, Tunisia. It existed from 1988 to 2011 and was the official organ of the ruling party of Tunisia, Constitutional Democratic Rally (RCD).
History and profile
Le Renouveau was first published on 20 March 1988{{cite web|title=News, Media and Television in Tunisia|work=Kasbah|url-status=dead|url=http://www.kasbah.com/vitalstats/entertainment/news_and_media/tunisia_tunisia_1.htm|access-date=12 October 2014|archive-date=24 February 2003|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030224174910/http://www.kasbah.com/vitalstats/entertainment/news_and_media/tunisia_tunisia_1.htm}} as a continuation of another French language daily L'Action which was one of the official media outlets of the now-defunct Neo-Destour Party.{{cite book|author=Robin Bidwell|title=Dictionary of Modern Arab History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KKrCgxsRBkEC&pg=PA304
|year=2012|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-136-16298-5|page=304|location=London; New York}}{{cite book|author=Harry Back|display-authors=et. al.|title=Dictionnaire de Politique Et D'économie|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vT5agE7b_CsC&pg=PA882|year=1967|page=882
|location=Berlin|publisher=De Gruyter|isbn=978-3-11-000892-0}}{{cite book|author=William A. Rugh|title=Arab Mass Media: Newspapers, Radio, and Television in Arab Politics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UGfbluSa4N8C&pg=PA123|year=2004|page=123
|publisher=Praeger|isbn=978-0-275-98212-6|location=Westport, CT; London}} The publisher of Le Renouveau was Dar El Amal company and the paper was based in Tunis.
Le Renouveau was the organ of the ruling party, RCD, which was the successor the Neo-Destour Party.{{cite book|title=Study on media development in Tunisia: Based on UNESCO's Media Development Indicators|publisher=UNESCO|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3a-n1e2PXosC&pg=PA16|year=2013|location=Paris|page=16|isbn=978-92-3-001188-8}}{{cite book|author=Edward Webb|title=Media in Egypt and Tunisia: From Control to Transition?|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=unJUAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA52|year=2014|pages=52–53|isbn=978-1-137-40996-6
|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|location=New York}} RCD also owned another newspaper entitled El Hurriya.{{cite news
|author=Roland Lank|title=Tunisia: 'Seven Versions of Pravda'|url=http://worldpress.org/mideast/957.cfm|access-date=12 October 2014|location=Tunis
|work=World Press|date=18 February 2003}}{{cite journal|issue=17|author=Amy Aisen Kallander|title=From TUNeZINE to Nhar 3la 3mmar: A Reconsideration of the Role of Bloggers in Tunisia's Revolution|url=https://www.arabmediasociety.com/author/amy-aisen-kallander/|journal=Arab Media and Society|date=Winter 2013}}
Mohamed Nejib Ouerghi served as the editor-in-chief of the paper.{{cite news|author=Christopher Barrie|access-date=12 October 2014
|title=Tunisian Media: Al-Nahda Tightens its Control|url=http://english.al-akhbar.com/node/11812|work=Al Akhbar|date=6 September 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141017165539/http://english.al-akhbar.com/node/11812|archive-date=17 October 2014}} It frequently featured articles to legitimate the rule of the President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.{{cite journal|author=Larbi Sadiki|title=Bin Ali's Tunisia: Democracy by Non-Democratic Means|journal=British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies|year=2002|volume=29|issue=1|page=64
|doi=10.1080/13530190220124061|s2cid=145333053}} The paper ceased publication in 2011 following the removal of Ben Ali.
In 1985 the estimated circulation of the paper was 13,500 copies whereas it was 33,000 copies in 2003.
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Category:1988 establishments in Tunisia
Category:2011 disestablishments in Tunisia
Category:Defunct newspapers published in Tunisia
Category:French-language newspapers published in Tunisia
Category:Newspapers established in 1988