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Amira Charfeddine
Amira Charfeddine () is a Tunisian novelist. Her first novel, ''Wild Fadhīla'' (Fadhila's son), was written in Tunisian Arabic and is the first major Tunisian novel to feature a gay protagonist. The novel was commercially successful, selling 2,000 copies within a month of its release in April 2019. It was awarded the Ali Douagi prize from the Derja Association for best work written in Tunisian Arabic in 2019. Career Charfeddine published her first novel, ''Wild Fadhīla'', in 2019. It tells the story of a boy, Fadhil, who is so close to his mother that everyone refers to him as ''wild Fadhila'': "Fadhila's boy." As he reaches adolescence, he finds himself unable to be attracted to his girlfriend who—after catching him about to kiss his male best friend in the library—outs him to his mother. His family refuse to let him back into the house and Fadhil is forced to live on the streets, where he discovers a seedy and dangerous underside of Tunis few have seen. Charfeddine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ali Douagi
Ali Douagi or Ali el-Du'aji ( aeb, علي الدوعاجي; January 4, 1909 – May 27, 1949) was a Tunisians, Tunisian literary and cultural icon who is considered to be one of the pioneers of modern Tunisian literature. He is best remembered as "the father of the modern Tunisian short story".. Douagi was also known for his versatility as a sketch artist, songwriter, playwright, and journalist. Biography Douagi was born to a wealthy family of Turkish people, Turkish origin in the city of Tunis in 1909. His father, al-Hajj Muhammad al-Du'aji who was a wealthy merchant and landowner, died when Douagi was four years old; he bequeathed to his wife and children a sizeable trust fund from which the family was able to live comfortably. His mother, Nuzhat Bint Shaqshuq, gave birth to three daughters and two sons, Douagi being the only survivor of the two sons. Thus, growing up without his father and being the only son, in part, explains why his works had come to be heavily populated b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tunisian Arabic
Tunisian Arabic, or simply Tunisian, is a set of dialects of Maghrebi Arabic spoken in Tunisia. It is known among its over 11 million speakers aeb, translit=Tounsi/Tounsiy, label=as, تونسي , "Tunisian" or "Everyday Language" to distinguish it from Modern Standard Arabic, the official language of Tunisia. Tunisian Arabic is mostly similar to eastern Algerian Arabic and western Libyan Arabic. As part of a dialect continuum, Tunisian merges into Algerian Arabic and Libyan Arabic at the borders of the country. Like other Maghrebi dialects, it has a vocabulary that is predominantly Semitic Arabic with a minimal Berber, Latin Tilmatine Mohand, ''Substrat et convergences: Le berbére et l'arabe nord-africain'' (1999), in ''Estudios de dialectologia norteafricana y andalusi 4'', pp 99–119 and possibly Neo-Punic substratum. Tunisian Arabic contains a few Berber loanwords which represent 8% to 9% of its vocabulary. However, Tunisian has also loanwords from French, Turkish, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ali Douagi Prize
Ali Douagi or Ali el-Du'aji ( aeb, علي الدوعاجي; January 4, 1909 – May 27, 1949) was a Tunisian literary and cultural icon who is considered to be one of the pioneers of modern Tunisian literature. He is best remembered as "the father of the modern Tunisian short story".. Douagi was also known for his versatility as a sketch artist, songwriter, playwright, and journalist. Biography Douagi was born to a wealthy family of Turkish origin in the city of Tunis in 1909. His father, al-Hajj Muhammad al-Du'aji who was a wealthy merchant and landowner, died when Douagi was four years old; he bequeathed to his wife and children a sizeable trust fund from which the family was able to live comfortably. His mother, Nuzhat Bint Shaqshuq, gave birth to three daughters and two sons, Douagi being the only survivor of the two sons. Thus, growing up without his father and being the only son, in part, explains why his works had come to be heavily populated by women characters. Doua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Derja Association
Derija Association ( in Arabic; in French) is a group that advocates for the use of Tunisian Arabic (also known as 'common') as a written language. It argues for an expanded public role for the vernacular language as an authentic expression of Tunisian identity and culture. It holds an annual conference and awards prizes for literature written in Tunisian. Activities The Derja Association holds an annual conference, scheduled to coincide with International Mother Language Day. with guest speakers who present about Tunisian language. Association president, Ramzi Cherif, has described the purpose of these conferences as "raising the value and recognition of Tunisian" as well as developing it into an "independent" language. A particular focus of the association is advancing the status of Tunisian as a written language. To this end, the association maintains a library of materials written in Tunisian Arabic and offers downloadable keyboards (in Arabic letters and Latin letters) on i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Messaouda Boubaker
Messaouda Boubaker ()(born 19 February 1954) is a Tunisian novelist and short story writer who writes in Arabic. After the Tunisian Revolution, Boubaker joined the country's civil society organizations as a political activist. In response to a young man who told her to stop protesting and go back to her kitchen where she belonged, she wrote a collection of short stories titled ''Adhal ahki'' (I Continue Narrating, 2013). Like several other Tunisian women writers she was keen to continue her work, explaining that only death could silence her. Her novel ''Perle et ambre'' (Pearl and Amber, 2005) includes the mystical black African Chama, a descendant of the female magicians of Timbuktu Timbuktu ( ; french: Tombouctou; Koyra Chiini: ); tmh, label=Tuareg, script=Tfng, ⵜⵏⴱⴾⵜ, Tin Buqt a city in Mali, situated north of the Niger River. The town is the capital of the Tombouctou Region, one of the eight administrativ .... Among her other novels are ''Laylat al-ghiyab'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Modern Standard Arabic
Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) or Modern Written Arabic (MWA), terms used mostly by linguists, is the variety of Standard language, standardized, Literary language, literary Arabic that developed in the Arab world in the late 19th and early 20th centuries; occasionally, it also refers to spoken Arabic that approximates this written standard. MSA is the language used in literature, academia, print media, print and mass media, law and legislation, though it is generally not spoken as a first language, similar to Contemporary Latin. It is a Pluricentric language, pluricentric standard language taught throughout the Arab world in formal education, differing significantly from many vernacular varieties of Arabic that are commonly spoken as mother tongues in the area; these are only partially mutually intelligible with both MSA and with each other depending on their proximity in the Dialect continuum#Arabic, Arabic dialect continuum. Many linguists consider MSA to be distinct from Clas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Faten Fazaâ
Faten Fazaâ ( ar, فاتن الفازع) is a Tunisian novelist and the first woman to write a novel in Tunisian Arabic. Biography Faten Fazaâ was born and raised in Tunis, Tunisia. She is the daughter of the well-known Tunisian writer and scriptwriter Tahar Fazaa. Following a difficult marriage and divorce, Fazaâ began writing on Facebook in 2013 or 2014, quickly amassing followers who enjoyed her writing and encouraged her. She began to write a screenplay, but her writing was interrupted when she emigrated to Germany. It was after the death of her grandmother, who had raised her, that Fazaa began to write her first novel, ''ʾAsrār ʿāʾilīyah'', as a way of dealing with her grief and connecting with her grandmother. This success took the author by surprise: she recounts that she had never planned to write, and in school she wasn't extraordinary in the subject. She had expected to "sell 300 copies and be done with it." Her following novels were also successful: as of M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
21st-century Tunisian Women Writers
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21st-century Tunisian Writers
The 1st century was the century spanning AD 1 ( I) through AD 100 ( C) according to the Julian calendar. It is often written as the or to distinguish it from the 1st century BC (or BCE) which preceded it. The 1st century is considered part of the Classical era, epoch, or historical period. The 1st century also saw the appearance of Christianity. During this period, Europe, North Africa and the Near East fell under increasing domination by the Roman Empire, which continued expanding, most notably conquering Britain under the emperor Claudius (AD 43). The reforms introduced by Augustus during his long reign stabilized the empire after the turmoil of the previous century's civil wars. Later in the century the Julio-Claudian dynasty, which had been founded by Augustus, came to an end with the suicide of Nero in AD 68. There followed the famous Year of Four Emperors, a brief period of civil war and instability, which was finally brought to an end by Vespasian, ninth Roman emperor, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tunisian Writers In Tunisian Arabic
Tunisian may refer to: * Someone or something connected to Tunisia *Tunisian Arabic *Tunisian people *Tunisian cuisine * Tunisian culture {{Disambig Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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