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Albert Memmi was born in 1920 in Tunisia, when it was a French protectorate. He grew up speaking Tunisia-Judeo-Arabic and French, and went on to be educated at the University of Algiers and the Sorbon
Robyn Marsack is a writer, translator and academic from New Zealand. She is the author of The Cave of Making (1982), and an award-winning translator of Nicolas Bouvier's The Scorpion-Fish
Ari Sitas, a South African writer and a sociologist, works at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. He has been a leading scholar among the development alternative sociological voices in south
