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The Fight To Save Tunisia's Ancient Troglodyte Villages
DOURIET — “All the villages were abandoned at the same time, starting in 1970...” Mohamed is recounting the more recent history, as he walks through the narrow streets of his ancestral home village of Douiret. Some 20 kilometers west of Tataouine, this …