“You’Re Gonna Be Special, My Child.”

Download or read book “You’Re Gonna Be Special, My Child.” written by Ouided Bouchamaoui and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The motivation to write this book flowed naturally from the grace of the Nobel Peace Prize, a prize won the hard way by a quartet of organizations determined to unravel an untenable situation in an unbreathable atmosphere. Taking the form of an account of my personal journey leading up to the culmination of the Nobel Prize, the book rightly belongs to the genre of real biographies; nevertheless, it is at the same time a scrupulous testimony, namely mine, on events experienced first-hand during a crucial period of the political scene in Tunisia, where I was fated to play a frontstage role. So, dear reader, I faithfully offer you my narrative, which is intended to be unadorned and transparent. It reproduces events and situations as they really happened and also corrects a few (inevitable) highly exaggerated clichés, reproduced here and there in newspapers and other media. It is a witness account of an experience lived first-hand taken as I was by the irresistible swirl of the events of that period, along with and among the other actors of history. It represents the sum total of my personal journey up to that point in time where I also highlighted the significant milestones and vicissitudes in my life that had led to shaping my consciousness and helped me to form and grasp my “idea of engagement.”