citizenship nationality language birth_date article_title name
tunisia tunisian arabic 19 february 1954 messaouda boubaker
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messaouda boubaker

messaouda boubaker -lrb- born 19 february 1954 -rrb- is a tunisian novelist and short story writer who writes in arabic .
after the tunisian revolution , boubaker joined the country 's civil society organizations as a political activist .
in response to a young man who told her to stop protesting and go back to her kitchen where she belonged , she wrote a collection of short stories titled `` adhal ahki '' -lrb- i continue narrating , 2013 -rrb- .
like several other tunisian women writers she was keen to continue her work , explaining that only death could silence her .
her novel `` perle et ambre '' -lrb- pearl and amber , 2005 -rrb- includes the mystical black african chama , a descendent of the female magicians of timbuktu .
among her other novels are `` laylat al-ghiyab '' -lrb- 1997 -rrb- , `` trushqana '' -lrb- 1999 -rsb- , `` wada`an hammurabi '' -lrb- 2002 -rrb- , `` juman wa ` anbar '' -lrb- 2007 -rrb- , `` al-alif wa al-nun '' -lrb- 2009 -rrb- and `` adhal ahki '' -lrb- 2013 -rrb- .
