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Tunisia

Books in this genre are set in or about Tunisia.

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The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

Middle East and Maghreb Graphic Novels

45 books — 28 voters

Nory Ryan's Song by Patricia Reilly Giff

The Golden Goblet by Eloise Jarvis McGraw

Read Around the World FOR KIDS (No picture books)

170 books — 6 voters

The New Book of Middle Eastern Food by Claudia Roden

Olives, Lemons & Za'atar by Rawia Bishara

Best Middle Eastern & North African Cookbooks

136 books — 16 voters

A Thorned Rose in the Sand by Lea Bronsen

Romance Novels Set in Africa

112 books — 38 voters

Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga

Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba

Tour d'Afrique

71 books — 21 voters

Dawn of the Firebird by Sarah Mughal Rana

Arabian, Egyptian, and Indian Fantasy 2.

166 books — 15 voters

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“ أذكر كيف أننا حين كنا أطفالا ,كنا دوما نردد هذا اللحن .."بكتب أسمك يا بلادي على الشمس الي ما بتغيب.. فيا وطنا شبيها بعرائس الحقول وطباشير الحائط وخيطان الطائرات الورقية الملونة ويا وطنا شبيها بأصائل الرنج والزهر وضجيج المدارس ..ويا وطنا شبيها بدهشة تلك البدايات ...باسم جميع أطفال الخضراء ..أقدم لك اعتذاري .. . ...more ”
― Hamza wolf

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“ So I close this long reflection on what I hope is a not-too-quaveringly semi-Semitic note. When I am at home, I will only enter a synagogue for the bar or bat mitzvah of a friend's child, or in order to have a debate with the faithful. (When I was to be wed, I chose a rabbi named Robert Goldburg, an Einsteinian and a Shakespearean and a Spinozist, who had married Arthur Miller to Marilyn Monroe and had a copy of Marilyn’s conversion certificate. He conducted the ceremony in Victor and Annie Nava So I close this long reflection on what I hope is a not-too-quaveringly semi-Semitic note. When I am at home, I will only enter a synagogue for the bar or bat mitzvah of a friend's child, or in order to have a debate with the faithful. (When I was to be wed, I chose a rabbi named Robert Goldburg, an Einsteinian and a Shakespearean and a Spinozist, who had married Arthur Miller to Marilyn Monroe and had a copy of Marilyn’s conversion certificate. He conducted the ceremony in Victor and Annie Navasky's front room, with David Rieff and Steve Wasserman as my best of men.) I wanted to do something to acknowledge, and to knit up, the broken continuity between me and my German-Polish forebears. When I am traveling, I will stop at the shul if it is in a country where Jews are under threat, or dying out, or were once persecuted. This has taken me down queer and sad little side streets in Morocco and Tunisia and Eritrea and India, and in Damascus and Budapest and Prague and Istanbul, more than once to temples that have recently been desecrated by the new breed of racist Islamic gangster. (I have also had quite serious discussions, with Iraqi Kurdish friends, about the possibility of Jews genuinely returning in friendship to the places in northern Iraq from which they were once expelled.) I hate the idea that the dispossession of one people should be held hostage to the victimhood of another, as it is in the Middle East and as it was in Eastern Europe. But I find myself somehow assuming that Jewishness and 'normality' are in some profound way noncompatible. The most gracious thing said to me when I discovered my family secret was by Martin, who after a long evening of ironic reflection said quite simply: 'Hitch, I find that I am a little envious of you.' I choose to think that this proved, once again, his appreciation for the nuances of risk, uncertainty, ambivalence, and ambiguity. These happen to be the very things that 'security' and 'normality,' rather like the fantasy of salvation, cannot purchase. ...more ”
― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir

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