Saturday Nov 7 | Financial Times
Everybody, perhaps, has their own Tunisia. For many, it is the sheer exoticism of north Africa, hundreds of miles further to the west yet infinitely more oriental than the Middle East: the brilliant blue doorways set in dazzling white walls, the elderly gentlemen with their little round red hats and long robes - " which always seem to stop a bit ...
"Our plane," the stewardess announced, "will soon land at Carthage International Airport." Carthage.
The perfect harmony of old and new 'Tunisia'
These are lands over which the Phoenician, Roman, Byzantine, Arab and Ottoman empires have all ruled at one time or another.