Between Terror and Tourism by Michael Mewshaw

Author:Michael Mewshaw
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781582436791
Publisher: Catapult
Published: 2018-05-16T00:00:00+00:00

The road north to Tunis passed through Gafsa, an ill-favored town that had for millennia been conquered, razed and rebuilt by marauding armies. In 107 BC, the Romans leveled it during their scorched-earth campaign against the Numidian king Jugurtha, and it had since suffered constant misfortune. During World War II, the Allied and Axis armies traded Gafsa back and forth, capturing and relinquishing it four times in three months. The fly-bitten phosphate town’s reputation had then been maligned in a popular Arab song:Gafsa is miserable,

Its water is blood,

Its air is poison.

You may live there a hundred years.

Without making a friend.

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