Arab genealogy and Amazigh purism are the same test, run from opposite ends.
Gulf genealogy ranks Tunisians as insufficiently Arab; Amazigh purism answers with a bloodline test of its own. Alsace shows how Europe actually grants an ethnonym, by soil and time, not descent, and Ahmad Bey abolished slavery by decree in 1846, two years before France did. Tunisian is not a compromise between Arab and Amazigh; it is the name of everyone who stayed.
Spain keeps the Visigoths and Italy keeps the Lombards, though both were foreign, Arian, and gone. The Vandal kings ruled from Carthage for ninety-five years, struck silver reading Felix Karthago, and in 455 sailed from here to sack Rome. Tunisia keeps Hannibal, the Aghlabids, and the Turks, and files this century under Germany.
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