Journal

The national dish is inscribed by UNESCO, and the amount of care that goes into your bowl is a measure of how welcome you have been made.

We do not publish months we cannot source. What we can tell you is what the year is organized around, and where the birds are.

Three peoples, three landscapes, and a settlement pattern eight centuries old that is still lived in rather than preserved.

Most World Heritage properties are listed under two or three criteria. Gorée carries one, and that single line is the whole argument.

It was the capital of Senegal for eighty-five years, the capital of French West Africa before that, and the birthplace of the national dish.

Two hundred and eighteen mounds of shells, some hundreds of meters long, heaped up by people eating from the same water for centuries.

Over a thousand stone circles stand along a single river, built across more than fifteen centuries by a society we know mainly from its graves.

UNESCO inscribed Djerba for a settlement pattern built by communities of different faiths, and names the synagogue and the churches among its parts.

Tunisia is Arab, Amazigh and Mediterranean at once, and its craft traditions are inscribed heritage rather than souvenir production.

Tunisia marks its year with harvests, a Saharan gathering at Douz and a fishing season in the Kerkennah Islands that UNESCO inscribed in 2020.

Tunisian cooking is the spiciest in the Maghreb and harissa is the reason. Both the paste and the couscous around it are inscribed by UNESCO.

Spring and autumn suit the ruins, summer suits the coast, and winter is when Tunisia holds more than 300,000 waterbirds at Ichkeul.