Bulaq 58, ‘The Pillar of Salt,’ & Book-club Poll
Bulaq Episode 58 centers on Albert Memmi’s The Pillar of Salt.
Albert Memmi
Tunisian Novelist and Essayist Albert Memmi Dies at 99
“Many will paint Memmi as a Tunisian author to lend credibility to an imagined version of early 20th c. Tunisia: cosmopolitan, multi-confessional. In my opinion this is not only inaccurate, it runs against Memmi’s thought on the nuances of belonging and the workings of colonialism.”
Tunisian World Cup Team: 23 Writers
Again, remember, writers must be living to play, so sadly no Saghir Oulad Ahmed, Mahmoud Messadi, Muhammad Salih al-Jabri, Houcine El Oued, or Aboul-Qacem Echebbi.