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A French Muslim woman reflects on her visit with Tunisia’s tiny Jewish community

An annual festival in Djerba recalls the centuries when Muslims and Jews lived together, for the most part in friendship and peace.

A view of the ceremony after the Pilgrimage of the Ghriba on the Tunisian island of Djerba. (Samia Hathroubi)

By Samia Hathroubi May 9, 2018 3:03 pm

(Samia Hathroubi is a human rights and interfaith activist, and a freelance Europe coordinator for the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding.)

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