Jebel Dahar French: Djebel Dahar is a low sandstone mountain chain of the Médenine Governorate of Tunisia.
The largest number of ksour and the best examples are found around Tataouine, where there is a `route of the ksour` comparable to the `route of the kasbahs` in southern Morocco. The best preserved and most attractive ksar is in Chenini, approximately 20 kilometres 12 mi west of Tataouine. Near there are Douiret, where there is the only underground mosque in Tunisia, open to visits from non-Muslims; impressive storage buildings at Guermessa und Ksar Hadada; and Ksar Ouled Soltane, south of Tataouine.
The remaining cave dwellers have responded to increasing numbers of tourists by charging visitors to tour and take photographs of their homes, with what has been called `latent aggressiveness that is only too understandable in view of the hordes of tourists who invade their living spaces and privacy without respect`.[4]
Tourists are also increasingly drawn to the stark landscape for the effects of the light, particularly at sunrise and sunset. Many make daytrips from Djerba or Zarzis, and tours of Tunisia usually include a side trip to the mountains.
Jebel Dahar has also become internationally known as a site of filming in 1977 for Star Wars near Matmata and in 2000 for Star Wars: Episode II ââ¬â Attack of the Clones. Local people were employed as cheap extras.
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