Hasan Bin Uthman
Hasan Bin Uthman (/ʿuthmān/; Arabic: ; born on 12 February 1959) is a Tunisian writer and journalist. He was born in the town of Skalba, Menzel Temime, Nabeul Governorate. Career. He began his career in the 1980s with many opposing and independent stances and contributed to articles in several Arab newspapers and magazines such as Kul al-Arab that issues in Paris and Kuwait's Al-Qabas. He founded and supervised the establishment of several cultural pages and supplements in the weekly newspaper Al-Mustaqbal and the weekly supplement of "Cultural Papers" (original title: Waraqāt Thaqāfīyah). He was  the editor-in-chief of the cultural section of the newspaper AlRay AlAam in 1993. He then joined the Ministry of Culture of Tunisia and became the editor-in-chief of its cultural magazine "Cultural Life" (original title: al-Ḥayāt al-Thaqāfīyah) from 1996 to 2006. Post-Revolution. He was known for the saying "Ben Ali is dead" which he uttered during a show that aired on the Tunisie 7 (now called El Watania 1) on 4 January 2011. After the revolution, he participated in several Tunisian TV shows including "To Who Dares Only" (original title: Li-man Yajruʾ Faqat ) and “Screen Monster” (original title: Waḥsh al-Shāshah) with the media figure Samir ElWafi. He was known for many interferences that later remained in the watchers’ minds. Awards. Hasan Bin Uthman won the COMAR d'Or prize in 1999 for his work "Promosport: The Five Ground Rules to Win the Sports Betting”. It became a film adaptation under the title “The Word of Men" (original title: Kalimat Rijāl) in 2004 which was directed by Moez Kamun.