Messaouda Boubaker ()(born 19 February 1954) is a Tunisian novelist and short story writer who writes in Arabic. After the

Tunisian Revolution The Tunisian Revolution, also called the Jasmine Revolution, was an intensive 28-day campaign of civil resistance. It included a series of street demonstrations which took place in Tunisia, and led to the ousting of longtime president Zine El ...

, 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

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. Among her other novels are ''Laylat al-ghiyab'' (1997), ''Trushqana'' (1999], ''Wada‘an Hammurabi'' (2002), ''Juman wa ‘anbar'' ( 2007), ''al-Alif wa al-nun'' (2009) and ''Adhal ahki'' (2013).

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