- Iynās ʿAbbāsī (1982 –, Tunisia) – Manzil Būrqībah (‘House of Bourguiba’, 2017). This novel is about migration and disappearance. It is set in the city of Manzil Būrqība during the Tunisian Jasmin revolution of 2011. Heroine of the novel, Jīhān, receives a phone call, informing her that her father, Ḥabīb, has died. When his body arrives from Chicago, where her father had migrated to, Jīhān is left with many questions, such as why her father moved to America and left a young child behind and how her uncle, who tried to follow Ḥabīb into exile, mysteriously disappeared (reference). However, she decides to go on with her life, and the novel portrays the strong role she takes as a woman in deciding her own future.
- Lutfi Achour’s (?, Tunisia) play Macbeth: Leïla & Ben – A Bloody History (2012). Using Tunisian Arabic, French, and Italian, the play narrates the 2011 Tunisian uprisings by depicting former President Zine al-Abadine Ben Ali (named Maczine in the play) and his wife Leïla as the North African equivalents of Shakespeare’s infamous King and Queen in Macbeth. The king and Queen’s determination to keep hold of power shows that Macbeth’s story of brutality, backstabbing and blind ambition remains. The play contains different elements such as tv-interviews with the President, and songs in French and Arabic (reference) (also in L: Cultural and Literary Heritage: Philosophical Heritage: British authors and philosophers).
- Ayman al-Dabūsī (?, Tunisia) – Intiṣāb Aswad (‘Black erection’, 2016). A young Tunisian man narrates his partaking in the Tunisian ‘Jasmine Revolution’ to his psychologist, and links it to his own sexual liberation and experimenting. His narrative alludes to the fact that a social revolution cannot succeed without the complete liberation of the body. However, the narrator ended up suffering from a sex-addition desperately looking for sexual contacts, a symbol for the failure of the revolution (reference) (also in L: Love, Lust and Relationships: Lust and Sex: Sexual frustrations and misconduct and Disabilities, Illness and Psychological Diseases: Addiction: Sex-Addiction).
- Fāṭmah Bin Maḥmūd (?, Tunisia) – Imraʾa fi Zaman al-Thawra (‘A Woman at the Time of Revolution’, 2011). This novel is the first autobiographical fiction documenting the 2011 Tunisian revolution (reference).
- Amāl Mukhtār (1964-, Tunisia) – Dukhan al-Qasr (‘Smoke of the Palace’, 2013). In this novel four characters give their account of the Tunisian Revolution, combined with interruptions from Mukhtār herself, that took place from December 2010 until Ben Ali’s departure to Saudi Arabia in 2011 (reference).
Refrences:
In order of appearance
- Muṣṭafā Dīb. 2017. “Riwāyah ‘Manzil Būrqībah’ … Nidāʾ Istighāthah.” www.ultratunisia.ultrasawt.com, 12 November 2016 https://ultratunisia.ultrasawt.com/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D9%85%D9%86%D8%B2%D9%84-%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%82%D9%8A%D8%A8%D8%A9-%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%A1-%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%BA%D8%A7%D8%AB%D8%A9/%D9%85%D8%B5%D8%B7%D9%81%D9%89-%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A8/%D8%AB%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%A9-%D9%88%D9%81%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86/%D9%85%D9%82%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA (last accessed 1 June 2023)
- Eiman Tunsi. 2015. “A Dramatic Anticipation of the Arab Spring and a Dramatic Reflection Upon It.” Arab Stages 1(2)
- al-Kabīr al-Dādīsī. 2018. Masārāt al-riwāyah al-ʿarabiyyah al-muʿāṣirah, p. 97
- Douja Mamelouk. 2015. “New National Discourses: Tunisian Women Write the Revolution.” AJCP (35): 100-122