I enjoyed this journey in Tunisia: beautiful landscapes, interesting cultural activities and nice encounters.
Some words about Sidi Bou Saïd and the music: the baron d'Erlanger, painter, was also interested in the Mediterranen music: Riadh Fehri, an oud player and composer has created a music school and organizes concerts: a great diverity of musics (Arab music, Andalusi music).
Tunisia is known for it's women's emancipation : Inès Crack and some friends of his neighbourhood are singing rap: at the beginning her parents had some doubts but now they are supporters of her music.
But some times the women have to fight for their rights: Synem Belkhodja presents her self as s Muslim. Choreographer, dancer and tolerant: she manages a dance company of men and women and they do modern and contemporary dance with a touch of sensuality.
At the north of Tunis we see the end of the film festival dedicated to female directors: an example for other Arab countries.
Then we travel to the area of Cape Bon: Mohammed El Arbi is sheep breeder and goes every week to Nabeul to sell his sheep: on Friday moring the market of Nabeul is full of farmers who sell their products (we see grapes and pear)s, the cattle breders sell their animals.
Not far from Nabeul there is Hammamet, the great touristic resort: a place with many spectacles: Faouzia Cherif has come from Kairouan to work here as professionnal dancer: the spectacle is about Scheherazade (the Persian princess), each day there is a rehearsal and then a spectacle.
Asmer-Moez Ben Abdallah explains that he is playing for the tourists Occidntal music.
Chadli is snake charmer for the tourists , but in the night he joins his old friends in the old Hammamet and is nostalgic of this old town before the mass tourism.
Then we travel to Tozeur, a great oasis : we meet Badreddin Jraied, who is sharecropper in a date palm plantation: as part of the deal we takes care for 5 date palms and send his harvest in the market of Tozeur: his wife Samira Jraied tells that this life of farmer is quite and hopes that her daughters will study and go a job in an office.
I enjoyed the encounters of Sophie with Karim Bey in Sidi Bou Saïd, with Mohamed Masmoudi in the thermal baths of Carthage, with Sadika Keskes , the glass blower, with Jacques Perez , the photographer, with Slim Gharbi, the potter, with Skander Zeribi, the hotel owner (the horse riding near the aqueduct) and with Afifa Bousseranel Beji in Kairouan (the makrouds): very nice encounters with very kind Tunisian men and women.