Evening view of Sidi Bou Said harbor, near the legendary ruins of ancient Carthage, Tunisia. I almost felt too tired and lazy to go out for a photo shoot on my first day in Tunisia because even though my flight from Sicily took less than an hour, I was detained by the Tunisian police at the airport for several hours because they were looking for a person that had a name similar to mine. The authorities offered no apology nor any explanation as to why I was made to wait several hours in a cold smoky room with rotting furniture. A similar experience happened in Abu Dhabi 6 months ago. That time they detained me because they could not find any record of me having left the UAE in the year 2006. I was supposed to travel to Jordan after Tunisia, but cancelled that trip after this experience. I will try my best to avoid these Arab autocracies by any means in the future.
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