Fadhila Echebbi ( ') (23 January 1946) is a

Tunisia Tunisia, officially the Republic of Tunisia, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered by Algeria to the west and southwest, Libya to the southeast, and the Mediterranean Sea to the north and east. Tunisia also shares m ...

n poet. Echebbi was born in

Tozeur Tozeur (; ) is a city in southwest Tunisia. The city is located northwest of Chott el Djerid, in between this Chott and the smaller Chott el Gharsa. It is the capital of Tozeur Governorate. It was the site of the ancient city and former bishopr ...

, Tunisia, on 23 January 1946, the cousin of the famous Tunisian poet

Aboul-Qacem Echebbi Aboul-Qacem Echebbi (, ; (24 February 1909 – 9 October 1934) was a Tunisian poet. He is probably best known for writing the final two verses of the current National Anthem of Tunisia, '' Humat al-Hima'' (''Defenders of the Homeland''), which ...

. In 1971, she obtained her diploma in

Arabic literature Arabic literature ( / ALA-LC: ''al-Adab al-‘Arabī'') is the writing, both as prose and poetry, produced by writers in the Arabic language. The Arabic word used for literature is ''Adab (Islam), Adab'', which comes from a meaning of etiquett ...

, from the Faculty of humanities and social sciences in Tunis. Presentation of the divan Smells of the earth and the anger.

Works

* Smells of the earth and the anger (1973). * Roar of the morning (2002). * Depression of the wind (2003).

References

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