Middle East Research and Information Project

Critical Coverage of the Middle East Since 1971

Naor Ben-Yehoyada

Naor Ben-Yehoyada is visiting lecturer in the Department of Anthropology and post-doctoral visiting research fellow at the Center for Middle East Studies at Harvard University.

MER Article

The Clandestine Central Mediterranean Passage

About 78 nautical miles separate the Tunisian town of al-Huwariyya at the head of the Cap Bon peninsula from Capo Feto at the southwestern tip of Sicily. An Italy-bound voyage between the two points, on the straight line headed roughly northeast-east, takes about 13 hours at an average speed of six

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