Exile.. its strange, beautiful disfigurement. The experience of self-imposed exile, of estrangement and voluntary distance from the motherland—though that “voluntariness” was already coerced—remains a central part of my life, and of the North African Tunisian character in general. We have always been migrants by instinct. Whether we were Arabs of Banu Hilal and Banu Sulaym … Continue reading Double Absence