حليمة
حليمة (Halima) is a 1964 novel by the Tunisian writer Mohamed Laroussi el-Metoui, set in the Tunisian countryside in the years leading up to independence. It follows Halima, a young woman from a rural family, as her life becomes entangled with the underground resistance against French colonial rule.
Marrying Abdelhamid and moving with him to the capital, Halima steps into a wider world where private life and clandestine struggle overlap. Through her eyes the novel offers an intimate, unadorned portrait of rural Tunisian life — its people, its hardships, and the simple human motives that feed a revolution.
A short, direct novel by one of Tunisia's foremost modern writers — the author whose التوت المر was later named among the hundred best Arabic novels — حليمة is a quiet study of ordinary lives caught in a moment of national awakening.
A young fatherless woman from the Tunisian countryside who is drawn into the anti-colonial resistance.
The nationalist activist Halima marries and follows to the capital.