This convenient and enjoyable book in hand, type "Bouquins" (Robert Laffont) or "Quarto" (Gallimard), is a rich compendium of texts, various authors, novelists, historians, essayists (including Georges Duhamel, Claude Roy, Georges Memmi, Michel Tournier). It offers a panorama intelligently arranged and introduced (by Guy Dugas) Tunisia seen as a very hospitable Arab country, having lived more or less well "digested" by multiple influences "communities" present a more or less permanent basis on its soil and under the sun. The reading is enriching the variety of texts and putting them into perspective in the twenty-first century. An all humanist adviser book is interesting to the shores of the Mediterranean or the Maghreb.