Word: djerba
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...broke through the gates of the U.S. embassy. Another protester was killed in Alexandria, Egypt when police fired rubber bullets to stop a mob from marching on the city's American cultural center. In the most troubling incident to date, an apparent terrorist attack on the Tunisian island of Djerba targeted one of the last remnants of North Africa's 2,000-year-old Jewish community. The attack, which may have been timed to coincide with the start of the trial of five al-Qaeda suspects in Frankfurt, left 16 people dead, including 11 German tourists. Arab leaders think...
...annual $3 dues, a club member can, for instance, go and spend two weeks on the Greek island of Corfu for $210, which is $70 less than the regular round-trip tourist air fare from Paris (an off-season third week is thrown in free). Two weeks at the Djerba, Tunisia, village costs $200. Three weeks in Tahiti costs $1,120-or $660 less than the economy air fare from Paris. Group charter travel, a huge turnover and the unfancy villages make profits at these prices...
...Mediterranean, took te'n years to reach his native land. Homer first recorded the voyagers' adventures in his epic poem The Odyssey. Now Photographer Erich Lessing has trained his camera on the very scenes that may have met the voyagers' astonished eyes: the shores of Djerba, off the Tunisian Coast, where Odysseus-here given his Roman name of Ulysses-tarried among the Lotus Eaters; the brooding Lake Avernus in Italy, where he descended into the Underworld; the bay of Port Vathy, where at last the voyage ended on the sands of home. Lessing has overburdened his superb...