North Africa
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A House in Fez—Building a Life in the Ancient Heart of Morocco: Suzanna Clarke
Published by Ebury Press / Simon & Schuster, 2008, 295 pages How many times have you been to a place and dreamed about what it would be like to settle down there? Suzanna Clarke fell in love with Medina, the… Continue reading
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All Strangers are Kin—Adventures in Arabic and the Arab World: Zora O’Neill
Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, 336 pages At a time when media coverage of the Middle East and North Africa is full of images of war, destruction and repression, and Arabic is increasingly associated with terrorists, Zora O’Neill’s book provides another… Continue reading
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The Olive Route—A Personal Journey to the Heart of the Mediterranean: Carol Drinkwater
Published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2006, 448 pages. Carol Drinkwater is passionate about the olive tree—she has an olive grove in Provence—and this book is about her search for its history around the Mediterranean through Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Malta, Tunisia,… Continue reading
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