Hot soil

Author's name: Amira Ghanem

Wassila Ben Ammar, Wassila Bourguiba, or “the glorious one” are many names for one person and one title around which stories differed and accumulated with the power of imagination and the pleasure of narration until layer upon layer covered the woman’s true face and established her image in the popular imagination as a villain who played with the heart of the Tunisian president and dug her claws into the body of the young state with her intrigues and conspiracies. So where does the truth lie? Does the truth have a home?

Out of imagination?

No one dared to answer, even the noble lady herself, who remained silent, perhaps under duress. But Amira Ghanem took the risk on a mined ground, confronting imagination with imagination and placing the microphone in front of the mirror so that...

She talks and tells us what happened.

"Hot Dust," a novel about power, resistance, love, and betrayal.

It takes us on a journey through Tunisia's forgotten history, penetrating deep into our hearts and souls.

So what happens behind the power wall? And how does the state collapse?

With arrogance, haughtiness and vanity, or with plots and betrayals? Which betrayal is more terrible?

What is the betrayal of a person to himself when he loses the one he loves by his own will?

Shawqi Al-Anizi