A Mosaic of Tunisia

El Djem, Tunisia —all photos are the author’s

The salesmen in the souks of Tunisia have been blessed with the gift of gab. The vast majority of them are multilingual and will try to snare potential customers by attempting to guess his or her nationality. The official language in Tunisia is Arabic, but I’ve heard them prattle on in English, German, Russian, and Czech, and probably several other languages I didn’t recognize. More often than not, it’s French though, as Tunisia is a former colony of…