Sarah Souli, Author at Roads & Kingdoms

Sarah Souli is an independent journalist based in Athens, after several years in Tunis. Her work has appeared in Vice, The Economist, The Guardian, Al Jazeera, Al Monitor, The Outline, and Quartz. She is a 2018 IWMF Adelante fellowship recipient.

22 Things to Know Before You Go to Athens

Greece’s financial troubles are not over, but the city is attracting the young and ambitious.

Brik a L’oeuf: The Tunisian Dumpling

Skip the ubiquitous supermarket version and gorge on the crispy, yolky, dripping-with-oil brik that writer Sarah Souli’s grandmother makes.

My Small Drunk Greek Breakfast

Tsipuro and toursi in Ioannina.

20 Things to Know Before You Go: Northern Greece

Forget Mykonos: Sarah Souli’s intel on drinking, eating, dancing (and cursing) in northern Greece

19 Things To Know Before You Go To Tunis

Decoding Tunisia’s ancient capital, where pedestrians do not have the right of way but you can smother your food with harissa and party with Italian nuns.

Breakfast with Grandma

If you grandmother survived French colonialism and a revolution, the least you can do is eat the entire baguette to make her happy.

Italian Brioche

A brioche is stuffed with cream, jam, chocolate, or Nutella, and is doused in powdered sugar to distract you from its profoundly disappointing stale taste.

The Doobie Underground

In Italy, grassroots cannabis social clubs dispense medical marijuana (and sometimes cheese) to ailing patients.

“There is Nothing Like This Festival”

Morocco’s Gnawa Music Festival is a melee of dreadlocks and drumbeats. Lots of hash and condoms, too.