Muhammad Al-Moncef Al-Wahaibi (born 20 December 1949 Hajib el-Ayounin, Tunisia) is a Tunisian poet, writer and academic.

Education and Academic Career

Muhammad Al-Moncef Al-Wahaibi was born in Hajeb El-Ayoun in the

Kairouan Kairouan (, ), also spelled El Qayrawān or Kairwan ( , ), is the capital of the Kairouan Governorate in Tunisia and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The city was founded by the Umayyads around 670, in the period of Caliph Mu'awiya (reigned 661� ...

governorate of

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 ...

. He obtained his master's degree with the thesis "The visible body and the imagined body in the poetry of Adonis;" his

PhD A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, DPhil; or ) is a terminal degree that usually denotes the highest level of academic achievement in a given discipline and is awarded following a course of graduate study and original research. The name of the deg ...

thesis at the Manouba University was on "The poetry industry of Abu Tammam and its components: in reading ancient and poetic text." He works as a lecturer at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Kairouan and

University of Sousse The University of Sousse (, ) is a public university in Sousse, Tunisia. History The University of Sousse was created in 2004 from a division of the University of the Center, which had been created in 1991 from the University of Monastir. The ...

, Tunisia. He is a member of the Tunisian Academy of Sciences, Literature and Arts - Beit Al-Hikma.

Writing

In 1996, Ouahibi wrote and wrote the script for the fictional documentary "Oh A Country Like Me," directed by Hisham Al-Jarbi, which centers around the 1914 visit of painter Paul Klee to Tunis, Hammamet and Kairouan. He co-wrote the film “Waiting for Ibn Rushd” for the same director in 1998. He has also worked translating poetry into Arabic. In 1984, he translated, with Muhammad al-Ghazzi, the collection of ''Under the Aquarius'' by the Swedish Nobel Committee member, Uston Shustrand. He also worked with the Portuguese poet Rosa Alice Branco to translate her poem "What Is Missing Green to Be a Tree" in 2002 and in the publication of "The Palm of Kairouan" in Arabic and Portuguese in 2003. Selected poems from his collections have been translated into French, English, German, Spanish, Portuguese and Swedish. He has several articles on the ''Alawan'' website and works as director of the "Ataba Cultural" association in Porto, Portugal.

Prizes

* Aboul-Qacem Echebbi Prize for Poetry, 1999 * COMAR d'Or Prize, 2012 * 'Akaaz Poetry Prize, 2014 * The Foundation of Abdulaziz Saud Al-Babtain's Prize for Poetic Creativity, 2014 *

Sheikh Zayed Book Award The Sheikh Zayed Book Award is a literary award presented yearly to writers, intellectuals, publishers whose writings and scholarly publications contributed to Arab cultural, literary and social life. The award has been described as “the Arab ...

, 2020

References

20th-century Tunisian poets 1949 births Living people People from Kairouan Governorate Manouba University alumni Academic staff of the University of Kairouan Academic staff of the University of Sousse 21st-century Tunisian poets {{Tunisia-bio-stub