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Of course, neither leader is likely to visit the other's capital in the near future. In fact, Sadat immediately brushed off Begin's appeal as an attempt to divide the Arabs on the eve of their Mideast strategy meeting in Tunis. Nonetheless, the proposals were certainly a...
Although I knew that most Tunisian women still covered themselves from head to ankle in the traditional "safsari" robe, I was startled just the same as I stepped off the plane in Tunis Airport to see a mass of white-sheeted figures on the airport's observation deck. The sight...
As I sensed, and as many Tunisian intellectuals complained, the people seem to be becoming increasingly materialistic. Those who can afford it hold lavish weddings at hotels like the Tunis Hilton, and ride Peugeots and Mercedes. Men with more modest resources practice other forms of conspicuous consumption, like wearing overpriced...
No Breathing Space. Later, another grisly drama of terrorism was played out at the international airport in Tunis. Bargaining with the lives of 47 persons aboard a hijacked British airliner, three Palestinian guerrillas demanded the release of 13 fellow terrorists-veterans of the 1973 Khartoum and Rome massacres-who were...
One of these is Masmoudi, a personal friend of Gaddafi's, who favors many of the Libyan leader's pro-Arab, anti-Western sentiments. Masmoudi advocated unification with Libya, and most likely saw it as a means of improving his own position in the Tunisian power struggle. At...