Selected articles
The Exploration of Light: European painters in North Africa, from Delacroix to Klee
The Women of Algiers flickers with jewel-like intensity so that even the shadows are filled with colour.
Tunis
The burnt-out, blackened city would however be re-created in the seventeenth century, as the old trade routes were re-opened and the profits of the corsairs captains poured into Tunis. This is the living city one can still see and admire today.
The Roman amphitheatre at El Jem
Nothing, not photographs, not television documentaries, let alone the outpourings of travel writers can prepare you for your first glimpse of the vast bulk of this monument as it hovers above a Sahelian horizon of olive orchards.
Travelling Circus, Tunisia
I was longing for them to fall in love with the ancient gilt-embroidered velvet suits but instead they picked out a selection of hair grips and a pink plastic telephone.
Carthage: gateway to Tunisia
I have listened to Tunisians passionately arguing that these infant bones are not evidence of human sacrifice but belonged to still-borne babies and infant mortalities
Through a glass darkly – North Africa as seen through English travel-writing
It is not enough for a traveller in North Africa, to sit in the shaded Cafe de Paris, be it in Tunis, Tangier, Algiers or Marrakech and just sip a coffee beside the street theatre of a Maghrebi dusk. You should, in the pecking order of these things, have both an open packet of local cigarettes and a battered travel book at your elbow.