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Love Notes from Tunis is a loyal story of a immature man's new knowledge training American enlightenment and politics during a Tunisian university, and a year’s onslaught for consolation and cognisance between contrary individuals, lovers and cultures. Developing a inside viewpoint of a highbrow employed by a Tunisian government—a hurtful and odious dictatorship—the doubtful clergyman finds a strength to strech out to his students nonetheless reason loyal to his ideals.
The discourse is quite timely deliberation new domestic misunderstanding and revolutions fueled by immature people via a Middle East and North Africa. Candid discussions on sexuality, racism, globalization and issues of democracy and probity concede immature Tunisian Muslims to pronounce in their possess voices to confront and try mutual prejudices, misconceptions and stereotypes. Challenging discourse unfolds, such as deconstructing American mafiosi swat and transgender temperament with classrooms of women in hijabs and group antagonistic to authority—resentful of, nonetheless preoccupied by, American culture. But building trust and love comes during a price.
What emerges is a story of incompatible people struggling to overcome guess and miscommunication, find care and common amiability and simply continue in a nation ruled by fear, danger and capricious abuses of power. Ultimately it is an fortifying comment of relationships—the unpleasant nonetheless rewarding hunt for understanding, loyalty and intrigue between people chancing a crotch of Tunisia and America, Islam and a West.
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- Amazon Sales Rank: #49920 in eBooks
- Published on: 2012-03-09
- Released on: 2012-03-09
- Format: Kindle eBook
- Number of items: 1
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Tanner runs on personification with a contrasts and similarities between opposite people and places, and what they can learn us about any other. A ambience for informative soak and novel knowledge has taken him from Iceland to a Caribbean and London to Tunisia looking for transformative connections. Interest in amicable issues led him to organizing, blogging, fundraising and module growth for a operation of domestic advocacy groups, choosing campaigns and non-profits. In 2006 he perceived his MA in International Studies and Diplomacy from a University of London School of Oriental and African Studies with a concentration on child soldiers. From 2008 to 2009 he taught enlightenment and politics during a University of Manouba in Tunis, Tunisia. Love Notes from Tunis: Part One is his initial work in a array on his knowledge training and training in Tunisia.
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