White Bride

Re: # 2
I like this, glad to hear it's a part of something, as it seems.

Your mention of 'subculture' made me think of Algerian Rai music..

Re: # 3
Rightly put NKG- On a recent visit to Goa, I saw the house of the Alvares Family which has been converted into a museum. It has many common themes with the mileu experienced in the Mediterranean region.

nice work....may be, you will find some portugese equivalent in Goa....

Re: # 1
Yes, Marino is the correct spelling. He is a person of Italian origin, born and brought up in Tripoli..His love.No, he does not need a “White-Bride� to be safe in the sense that you have understood.
You have misread the metaphor. Marino’s first love is Tripoli..The White Bride of the Mediterranean..In fact, he has an Arab lover.

This is a subculture which is real and vibrant in North Africa, of persons who have made Tripoli their home. But the ‘modern-nation state� has created many barriers, leading to lot of grief and “official discourse� does not acknowledge this reality.

About the human realities of love and life, rather than the artificial lines created by ‘visas and contracts’ in a heartless market which the world has become.

Regarding “Part 3 of a novel�..I have heard that criticism before. It is well taken and there are others who have conveyed similar things…Stop writing these short pieces.
To be truthful..These are all pieces (snapshots) from a much larger work which I am preparing..Hopefully it will be published one day…Inshallah

Is Marino's name spelled correctly?
Is he Libyan-Italian?
Is he not White himself? What is the significance of Whiteness in an Arab country
Why does he need a white bride to be safe?
This is one of those stories that makes you feel you're an outsider listening to gossip inside a clique, or that you're reading part 3 of a serialised novel; unfortunately, you don't really care about the characters so you don't pay a lot of attention.