“Many will paint Memmi as a Tunisian author to lend credibility to an imagined version of early 20th c. Tunisia: cosmopolitan, multi-confessional. In my opinion this is not only inaccurate, it runs against Memmi’s thought on the nuances of belonging and the workings of colonialism.”
via Tunisian Novelist and Essayist Albert Memmi Dies at 99 — ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly