My first memoir is now complete about how Karim and I fell into our unlikely love, when I was a young Jewish-American diplomat reporting from Tunis on the Islamic resistance and met Karim, a charismatic Muslim student leader. In the medina’s smoky teashops, our professional meetings about politics soon transformed into a norm-breaking romance. As I grieved for my mom, and Karim grappled with his faith, we spoke our truths and discovered a shared love of poetry and storytelling that felt predestined. The stakes rose against a backdrop of student strikes, government crackdowns, and the looming First Gulf War. Defying the odds, we married. Evocative with sensory details of North Africa, and honest about privilege and power dynamics, Tunisian Honey explores the nuances of community-bridging love. In the present time of polarization, rising Islamophobia and anti-Semitism, this Arab-Jewish love story offers the possibility of connection across seemingly intractable divides.