Hopes for preserving the hotel are also being pinned on an apparent link to the original 1977 Star Wars movie. Its director George Lucas filmed part of his space fantasy in Tunisia, using the ...

Fisher spent her younger days filming in the Tunisian deserts, playing the role of Princess Leia in the Star Wars franchise that would place her among Hollywood royalty. It was in Tunisia that ...

For the abandoned citadel of Guermassa in Tunisia sits in an otherworldly landscape redolent of the environs of Star Wars' Tatooine. This is not a coincidence: nearby Tataouine city - the capital ...