Hassouna Mosbahi (Tunisia) brings the past and present of North Africa to life in his novel "Rückkehr nach Tarschisch" (tr: Return to Tarshish)

In "Rückkehr nach Tarschisch", a born nomad returns from exile to Tunis and is confronted with a society that has suffered the horror of Islamic fundamentalism. Hassouna Mosbahi's novel uses poetic imagery to present the dichotomy facing North African intellectuals: being a foreigner in the West versus the impossibility of returning to their homeland. An event by the Modern Middle East Centre in cooperation with the ilb

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PRESENTER: Samuel Shimon SPEAKER: Roland Schäfer