Seeing the Beauty within the “Bad”

Celeste Koppe
4 min readMay 11, 2020
Kef Abed near Binzerte, Tunisia.

Most people don’t exactly consider Tunisia as “the place” to be these days. A decade of political struggle has cracked the bright and sunny Mediterranean beach facade, which once served as Tunisia’s profile picture.

Now the image of a messy house comes to mind, leaving a bulk of its inhabitants with a strong desire to leave ( 50 percent of young people ) and deterring many of its visitors from knocking…

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Celeste Koppe

Currently writing from Tunis, Tunisia where I also teach English, political science, and writing.