One of the two bookshops on the same street, where I bought some of my favourite books mainly during the period between 1995-2000, when I left political activism and immersed myself in reading on the benches of l’Avenue Habib Bourguiba. It was the period when I was trying to get a passport. The Sexual Revolution and The Mass Psychology of Fascism (French versions) by Wilhelm Reich Germinal by Emile Zola Zorba by Nicos Kazantzakis (French version) The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells One-Dimentional Man by Herbert Marcuse (Arabic version) The Second Sex (le deuxième sex) by Simone de Beauvoir and others One man’s fights to preserve relic of bygone age
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51