Visiting Tunisia: A story about a father and a daughter
For you, my American, Korean and perhaps Canadian or other international friends who have seen me put out several blogposts lately with foreign pictures, I’m on a trip to Tunisia. There I’m visiting an organization working for peace and reconciliation called Friends of Tunisia, and the activist and writer Lina Ben Mhenni, who visited Stavanger Culture House (where I work) in September. It’s been a ride so far, traveling by myself from one city to another in North Africa, facing some fears and prejudices on the way, and talking to different kinds of people, from men at the hotel and on the train, to film makers, authors, journalists and other people working with culture, that surround Lina wherever we go. Besides the bodyguard and the police following her, there are always people stopping her. But to be a friend of Lina’s it almost seems like you need to at least have published a few books or spent a couple of years in jail! Of the maybe 30 I’ve met non of them are what I c...