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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

* ''Tarateel li-Alamiha'' (Hymns for her Pain), 2011

Short story collections

* ''Saheel al-Asaila'' (The Neighing of Questions), 2002

References

1967 births Living people Tunisian short story writers Tunisian novelists 21st-century Tunisian writers 21st-century Tunisian women writers {{Tunisia-writer-stub