179. Tunisia

 The Ardent Swarm by Yamen Manai

A beekeeper in the North African village of Nawa has his beehives attacked by a swarm of hornets, destroying and killing everything in its wake. He has never seen anything like it, and ventures out to solve the mystery of what these hornets are and where they have come from. 

Set after the Arab Spring phenomena - when many citizens of Arab countries rose up in protest against the corruption and misrule of the regimes in control - and during Tunisia's first democratic elections. 

His quest reveals a country in fear and confusion as fundamentalists try to intimidate or coerce people into voting for them.