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Mohamed Ali Ayari, a rapper from a down-at-heel Tunis district, listens to headphones at a recording studio in Douar Hicher on March 1, 2023. The Tunisian capital's working-class districts have suffered from decades of state neglect and poor services, and residents say the stigma attached to their neighbourhoods shuts them out of the job market.
Mohamed Ali Ayari, a rapper from a down-at-heel Tunis district, listens to headphones at a recording studio in Douar Hicher on March 1, 2023. The Tunisian capital's working-class districts have suffered from decades of state neglect and poor services, and residents say the stigma attached to their neighbourhoods shuts them out of the job market.
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Rap battle: young Tunisians fight stigma with the arts

The Tunisian capital's working-class districts have suffered from decades of state neglect and poor services, and residents say the stigma attached to their neighbourhoods shuts them out of the job market.

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