Tunisia

• A Billionaire Wore Your History as a Joke. Now What? (27 Jan 2026)
  Why does 'Carthage must be destroyed' still provoke a reaction today? From Zuckerberg’s shirt to city maps, this essay questions memory, erasure, and whether Carthage’s return could quietly change how we see Tunisia.


• The Homestead Hypothesis: Can Planned Settlement Reverse Territorial Decline? (26 Jan 2026)
  Youth unemployment exceeds 49% and the coast cannot absorb more migration. This essay examines whether conditional land allocation -homestead model- in Tunisia's interior offers a realistic path forward; or whether water scarcity, unclear tenure, and bureaucratic gridlock make it another well; meaning dead end.


• Monarchy for Beginners Or What the Gulf Knows (That Ben Ali Didn't) (19 Jan 2026)
  If dictatorships are temporary, monarchy is the upgrade. Why dictators fall and monarchs endure: a sarcastic blueprint of clerics, clients, cousins, guns, and the trick that turns citizens into subjects.


• The Imported Identity: Why Berber is Not Just Amazigh (25 Dec 2025)
  Why replacing Berber with Amazigh in Tunisia imports a purity myth that erases our complex history of contact, mixture, and coastal continuity.


• Ghosts with ID Cards (11 Dec 2025)
  Tunisia has street names, ID cards, and utility meters. What it lacks is a live connection between people and places. Citizens exist on paper but remain invisible to institutions. They pay bills but cannot build credit. They move but cannot carry their history. They live in neighbourhoods the state cannot count and will not serve. This is not a technical failure. It is a political choice.


• From Dido to the Fall of Rome: A Tunisian Fable (08 Dec 2025)
  How Dido's curse was fulfilled not by Hannibal, but by the Vandals. A Tunisian story of prophecy, adoption, and the sack of Rome in 455 CE.


• Mass Deportations Are Inevitable: Are We Ready? (07 Dec 2025)
  Mass deportations are coming to Europe. The difference between crisis and opportunity is timing. A strategy for the Tunisian diaspora.


• The Homeless Mind (03 Dec 2025)
  The curse of the polyglot: speaking three languages means being a refugee in all of them. On linguistic colonization and intellectual homelessness.


• The Architecture of Survival (26 Nov 2025)
  How Tunisian proverbs formed a counter-machinery to colonial decrees. The colonizer had laws; the colonized had sentences passed through generations.


• Fuck your darija. We speak Tunisian. (16 Oct 2025)
  Why Tunisian is a language, not a dialect. Deconstructing the politics of 'darija' and the case for official recognition of Tunisia's native tongue.