page_title: Habiba Msika
section_title: Death
hierarchical_section_title: Habiba Msika / Life / Death
caption_attribution_description: English: Borgel cemetery - Habiba Msika Tomb
context_page_description: Habiba Msika, also spelled Messika, was a Tunisian singer, dancer and actress.
  Born Marguerite Msika, she was the niece of singer Leila Sfez.
  She quickly climbed the ladder of fame under the pseudonym Habiba. Prototype of the free, and master of her destiny, charismatic singer and daring actress, adored by the Tunisian population, Msika was a social phenomenon in her time. The film The Fire Dance by Salma Baccar talks about her career.
context_section_description: On the morning of February 20, 1930, her former lover Eliyahu Mimouni entered her apartment in Alfred Durand-Claye street in Tunis, and set her on fire. Badly burned, she died the next day, followed soon after by Mimouni. Msika is buried in the cemetery of Borgel in Tunis.
caption: Habiba Msika's tomb in the cemetery of Borgel
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