Tunisian writer, actror and playwright, graduate of L'Ecole Normale Supérieure. She co-founded the first private Tunisian theatre company, le Nouveau Théâtre, in 1976 and Familia Productions in 1994. She has marked the Tunisian and Arab theatre scene with her writing and roles since 1973. In 2003, she won the Prix SACD de la Francophonie for Araberlin. A member of the Tunisian Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts, she received the Mahmoud Darwich Prize in 2012.