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Tunisia

Books in this genre are set in or about Tunisia.

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Africans in Romance

39 books — 11 voters

Sketches from the Periphery by M.P. Summers

Historical Fiction - North Africa

31 books — 12 voters

The Hidden Face of Eve by Nawal El Saadawi

The Veil and the Male Elite by Fatema Mernissi

Arab feminism

46 books — 45 voters

The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

Middle East and Maghreb Graphic Novels

45 books — 28 voters

The Other Guy's Bride by Connie Brockway

A Spear of Summer Grass by Deanna Raybourn

Historical Romance Set in Africa

55 books — 21 voters

Eternal Kiss of Darkness by Jeaniene Frost

Paranormal Romance Set in Africa

23 books — 11 voters

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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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“ 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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