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Tourism dreams and violence woes after Tunisia’s Djerba attack

Aroussi Obay, 42, stands inside his souvenir shop in El Jem, Tunisia, May 20, 2021 [Jihed Abidellaoui/Reuters]

Tunis, Tunisia – Tunisian academic Habib Kazdaghli was on a bus outside the Ghriba Synagogue when the attack happened earlier this month.

Neither he nor any of his students on the coach knew what was happening. “We thought it was a fight between the policemen at first,” he told a translator later. “We didn’t know how many people were involved. We just lay on the floor of the bus in silence, for over an hour and waited.”

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