Summary: Alia is the illegitimate daughter of Khedija, a servant in an old Ottoman royal palace, Tunis. Her presumed father is Prince Sidi Ali, one of the last beys (Turkish governors), now a puppet of French colonial rule during the mid-1950s, when the movement for independence is growing violent. Khedija is beautiful, she works in…
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Halfaouine: Child of the Terraces (Asfour Stah) – Summary and Analysis
Summary: With his mother’s agreement, 12-year old Noura, looking younger than his age, is still admitted to the women’s hammam in Halfaouine, a neighbourhood in Tunis. His older friends ask him to provide licentious details on the life in the hammam and on the bodies of the women taking baths there. On the day of…