Return to Dar Al-BashaReturn to Dar al Basha by the contemporary Tunisian author Hassan Nasr depicts the childhood of Murtada al Shamikh and his return forty years later to his home in the medina or old city of Tunis. After being taken from his mother and raised in his father's home where he was physically abused and emotionally marginalized, Murtada spends a life of anxiety wandering the world. His return is prompted by a mysterious visit from one of his father's Sufi