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Tunisian Story-spinner Hassouna Mosbahi Dead at 75

June 6, 2025

Prolific and influential Tunisian novelist Hassouna Mosbahi died this past Wednesday at the age of 75.

Poetry Aboul-Qacem Echebbi, aghir Oulad Ahmed, Albert Memmi, Ali Znaidi, Amina Said, Aroussia Naluti, Aymen Mbarek, Besma Maroueni, Choukri al-Mabkhout, Fatma Ben Mahmoud, Habib Selmi, Hassan Nasr, Hassouna Mosbahi, Hédi Kaddour, Houcine El Oued, Houyem Ferchichi, Inas Abassi, Jonas Hassen Khemiri, Kamel Riahi, Leila Chatti, Mahmoud Messadi, Moncef Ouahibi, Muhammad Salih al-Jabri, Rachida el-Charni, Raja’ Ben Salamah, Reem Gomri, Salah al-Din Bujah, Shams Nadir, Taher Bekri, Z

Tunisian World Cup Team: 23 Writers

June 23, 2018

Again, remember, writers must be living to play, so sadly no Saghir Oulad Ahmed, Mahmoud Messadi, Muhammad Salih al-Jabri, Houcine El Oued, or Aboul-Qacem Echebbi.

Poetry Abdel Qader Ben Shaikh, Al-Bashir bin Salamah, Ali Dou'aji, Bashir Khreif, Faraj Al-Huwar, Hassan Nasrallah, Hassouna Mosbahi, Kamel Riahi, Laroussi al-Metoui, Mahmoud Messadi, Mahmoud Tarshouna, Mohammed Saleh al-Jaberi, Slaheddine Boujeh

What (or Who) Is Tunisian Literature?

October 10, 2010

When the latest issue of Banipal was released (39: Tunisian Literature), the MLA Division on Arabic Literature and Culture commented on Facebook:

New Banipal issue is devoted to Tunisian Literature–a nice gesture, but is that really it? Is that Tunisian literature? (Anyhow, let’s just say, it’s better than nothing)