(CBC) Ameni Ben Ammar lays out a spread of Tunisian hospitality on the coffee table of her small apartment in downtown Montreal.
Traditional pastries, a homemade cheese chicken pie and Tunisian wine.
Despite having left six years ago, the bond with her North African homeland is still strong.
But she says as much as she misses the Mediterranean lifestyle, for her, living in Tunisia had become untenable.
“I couldn’t handle the changes in my country,” she said, referring to what she describes as a steady progression of religious influence on society, the company where she worked, and even her own family.
