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List Of Tunisian Women Writers
This is a list of women writers who were born in Tunisia or whose writings are closely associated with that country. A *Ines Abassi (born 1982), poet, journalist *Faouzia Aloui (born 1958), poet, novelist * Hind Azouz (1926–2015), short story writer, essayist B * Hélé Béji (born 1948), novelist, essayist *Souhayr Belhassen (born 1943), journalist, women's rights activist * Essma Ben Hamida (born 1951), journalist, entrepreneur *Néjia Ben Mabrouk (born 1949), screenwriter *Lina Ben Mhenni (1983–2020), linguist, activist, writer and blogger * Sihem Bensedrine (born 1950), journalist, human rights activist * Sophie Bessis (born 1947), Tunisian-born French historian and feminist *Noura Borsali (1953–2017), journalist, writer and feminist *Messaouda Boubaker (born 1954), novelist, short story writer * Dorra Bouzid (born 1933), journalist, art critic and feminist C * Aïcha Chaibi, novelist * Amira Charfeddine (fl. 2019), novelist * Djemâa Chraïti (born 1960), writer * Ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tunisia
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Rachida El-Charni
Rachida el-Charni (born 1967) is a Tunisian writer. She has published three collections of short stories and one novel. Her short story 'Street of the House of Wonders' (also known as 'The way to Poppy Street') was in Habila Helon's ''The Granta Book of the African Short Story'' - a collection of short stories from prominent African writers, including Chimamanda Adichie, Mansoura Ez-Eldin, Doreen Baingana, Henrietta Rose-Innes, E. C. Osondu, Alex La Guma and Camara Laye Camara Laye (January 1, 1928 – February 4, 1980) was a writer from Guinea. He was the author of '' The African Child'' (''L'Enfant noir''), a novel based loosely on his own childhood, and ''The Radiance of the King'' (''Le Regard du roi'' ... among others. Prizes * First prize, Arab Women’s Creative Writing (Sharjah), 2000, for her second collection of short stories * Centre of Arab Woman for Training and Research (Tunisia), 1997, for her first collection of short stories Selected works Novels ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sonia Mabrouk
Sonia Mabrouk (; born 1977) is a Tunisian-born journalist who in 2010 obtained French nationality. After first embarking on an academic career in Tunisia, in 2005 she turned to journalism, writing for the magazine ''Jeune Afrique''. In 2009, she was engaged by the French parliamentary television channel Public Sénat and later hosted political programmes on the radio station Europe 1. In 2017, Mabrouk published her first book ''Le monde ne tourne pas rond, ma petite-fille''. Due to her stances, on the French political spectrum, Sonia Mabrouk is generally ranked on the conservative right-wing, or even on the far-right. Early life Born in Tunis on 17 December 1977, Sonia Mabrouk was brought up as an only child in an upper class Tunisian family with connections to President Habib Bourguiba. Her grandfather Mongi Mabrouk was Tunisia's trade minister and her uncle Hédi Mabrouk was a diplomat and foreign minister. After matriculating from high school when she was 16, she studied at t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dalenda Larguèche
Dalenda Bouzgarrou-Larguèche (; born 1953), better known as Dalenda Larguèche, is a Tunisian historian specializing in the early modern period and women in Islamic societies. She is also a longtime political activist, particularly focused on the rights of women and other marginalized people. Biography Larguèche was born in 1953 in Monastir, Tunisia. She joined the Tunisian Communist Party during a period when it was banned in the country, although the ban was lifted in 1981. She also became an activist with the Tunisian Association of Democratic Women and the Association of Tunisian Women for Research and Development. Larguèche attended Tunis University, graduating in 1986 with a doctoral degree. She then became a professor of early modern history at Manouba University. Her activism extended to her work as an academic. In the early 1990s, with the support of some of her colleagues, she launched and developed the study of women's history at Manouba University. Despite some ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Latifa Lakhdar
Latifa Lakhdar (born 1 February 1956) is a Tunisian historian and politician who was Minister of Culture from February 2015 until January 2016. Early life and education Lakhdar was born in Zarzis on 1 February 1956. She was a student of Mohamed Arkoun at the Sorbonne in Paris. Career Lakhdar was Professor of Contemporary History at University of Ez-Zitouna from 1991 to 1999 and from 2000 to 2015 at the University of Tunis. Lakhdar is an expert in Islamic thought and has published several books in Arabic and French, notably on the condition of women in Islamic societies. She is a women's rights activist and secularist. She has argued that Islamic fundamentalism, including Islamic terrorism is part of Islamic orthodoxy, but that Islamic thought can be enlightened and liberal if it undergoes a "critical revolution". She argues that "The jihadist idea that religion should rule politics is a model that never existed." Political career Lakhdar is a founding member of the Asso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meherzia Labidi Maïza
Meherzia Labidi Maïza ( ar, محرزية العبيدي معيزة;17 December 1963 – 22 January 2021) was a Tunisian politician and professional translator and interpreter. She became the first deputy speaker of the Constituent Assembly of Tunisia. Maïza was the most senior elected woman in the Middle East. She was proud of helping to include a clause to protect women's rights into Tunisia's post Arab Spring constitution. Early life and education Meherzia Labidi was born on 17 December 1963 in El Meziraâ in the town of Hammamet in Nabeul Governorate in North East Tunisia. She graduated from a mixed high school in the town of Grombalia in 1982 and then moved south to study at the Ecole Normale Superieure in the city of Sousse. Labidi-Maïza married in 1986 and went to France with her husband, who is a telecommunications engineer, [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sabiha Al Khemir
Sabiha Al Khemir or Sabiha Khemir (Arabic: صبيحة الخمير) (born 1959) is a Tunisian writer, illustrator, and expert in Islamic art, whose work is concerned with cultural bridging and cultural dialogues. She was the founding director of the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar. She was born in Tunisia and grew up in Korba, Tunisia, where she attended Koranic school as a child. She is fluent in and lectures internationally in English, Arabic and French in addition to speaking Italian and Spanish. Her multifaceted approach has been widely recognized. She is known for using themes relating to the metropolitan location and identity in her literature and art. Education Al Khemir graduated in 1982 from the University of Tunis, École Normale Supérieure, with a degree in English Literature. In 1986 she received an MA (with distinction) in Islamic Art and Archaeology from London University, School of Oriental and African Studies, and in 1990, a Ph.D. from London University ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fethia Hechmi
Fethia Hechmi () (b. 1955) is a Tunisian novelist. She published her first collection of poems entitled ''al-Uqḥuwān al-maṣlūb alā al-shifah'' in 2002, and her first novel ''Ḥāfiyat al-rūḥ'' (novel) in 2002. Her 2009 novel ''Maryam tasquṭ min yadd Allāh'' has been recognized for its experimental style. She was active in the 2011 Tunisian revolution and has been a prominent voice on Tunisian politics since then. Works Novels * (2005) ''Ḥāfiyat al-rūḥ'' ( (Bare-footed soul)) * (2007) ''Minnah Mawwāl'' () * (2009) ''Maryam tasquṭ min yadd Allāh'' ( (Maryam falls from the hand of God)) * (2016) ''al-ʿAnkabūt lā yaḥrus al-ʾanbiyāʾ dāʾiman'' ( (The spider does not always guard prophets)) Poetry * (2002) ''al-Uqḥuwān al-maṣlūb alā al-shifah ('' (A daisy crucified on lips)) Short story collections * (2012) ''al-Shayṭān yaʿūd min al-manfā'' ( (Satan returns from exile)) Prizes * (2009) Credif Prize for Best Writing by a Tun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gisèle Halimi
Gisèle Halimi (born Zeiza Gisèle Élise Taïeb; 27 July 1927 – 28 July 2020) was a Tunisian-French lawyer, politician, essayist and Feminism in France, feminist activist. Biography Zeiza Gisèle Élise Taïeb was born in La Goulette, Tunisia, on 27 July 1927 to a practicing very modest Jewish Berber people, Berber family (to Edouard et Fortunée dite "Fritna" Taïeb). She was educated at a French ''lycée'' in Tunis, and then attended the University of Paris, graduating in law and philosophy. Her childhood and the ways in which she blends a Jewish-Muslim identity are discussed in her memoir, ''Le lait de l'oranger''. She was first married to Paul Halimi, and then to Claude Faux. She died the day after her 93rd birthday, on 28 July 2020. Career In 1948, Halimi qualified as a lawyer and, after eight years at the Tunis bar association, bar, moved to practise at the Paris bar in 1956. She acted as a counsel for the National Liberation Front (Algeria), Algerian National Liberatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nidhal Guiga
Nidhal Guiga (born 11 March 1975) is a Tunisian actress, writer, and film director. Biography Guiga has a doctorate in linguistics and began teaching at the university level in 2002. In 2006, Guiga wrote and directed the play ''Une heure et demie après moi'', produced by the Tunisian National Theater. In 2008, she directed ''Selon Gagarine'', also produced by the Tunisian National Theater. In 2012, Guiga published her debut novel ''Mathilde B.'', which was awarded the Zoubeïda B'chir prize. Also in 2012, she began working as a columnist for Radio Tunis Chaîne Internationale and performed the radio plays '' Antigone'' and '' Rhinoceros''. In 2013, she wrote ''Pronto Gagarin'', which was selected in the Contemporary Arab Dramaturgies project. The play was presented at the Festival d'Avignon in 2014. In 2014, Guiga wrote and directed the short comedy film ''A Capella'', involving a discussion between a man and woman. She wrote her second novel, ''Tristesse Avenue'', and had it pu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amel Grami
Amel Grami ( ar, آمال قرامي, Āmāl Qarāmī) is a Tunisian academic, writer, and women's rights activist. Grami has worked as a professor of Islamic studies at Manouba University. She has advocated for Islamic modernism and Islamic feminism Islamic feminism is a form of feminism concerned with the role of women in Islam. It aims for the full equality of all Muslims, regardless of gender, in public and private life. Islamic feminists advocate women's rights, gender equality, and soci ..., and she argues that the Quran opposes heavy legal restrictions on women. She has been the subject of protest for her teachings on Islam and feminism, including an on-campus sermon in November 2011 that condemned her presence at the university. In 2014, Grami criticized the 2014 parliamentary election for the limited number of women candidates, describing gender as a stronger determining factor in politics than political ideology. In 2016, Grami was denied a travel visa to Egypt ... [...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] |
