Ḥasanayn Bin ʻAmmū

Hassanine Ben Ammou (Arabic: حسنين بن عمو) is a Tunisian novelist and painter, born on 5 March 1948 in Dar Chaabane El-Fehri, Nabeul. He is regarded as a leading writer of the historical novel in Tunisia, drawing on the country's ancient, medieval and modern history. His novel Al-Ghouroub Al-Khaled, a fictionalised life of Ibn Khaldun, won the Grand Prize for the Tunisian Novel in 2007, and Bab El Falla won the Comar d'Or in 2006. Other works include Rahmana, Al-Moureskia, Al-Andaloussia and Al-Kholkhal.