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للا السيدة

Lalla al-Sayyida

Tarek Chibani (طارق الشيباني, born 1973)

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A woman named al-Sayyida tells the story of her body and her life from childhood to middle age, a life that runs alongside Tunisia's own, from Bourguiba's rule and independence in the 1950s to the present day.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Length
216 pages in the original
Genres
Historical (assigned by AI)
Set in
Tunisia, 1950s to the present
First published
2018 by Dar Zaynab
Author's age
45 when first published
ISBN

9789938921953 (original)