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Abdelwahab Meddeb
Abdelwahab Meddeb (; 1946 – 5 November 2014) was a French-language poet, novelist, essayist, translator, editor, cultural critic, political commentator, radio producer, public intellectual and professor of comparative literature at the University of Paris X-Nanterre.
Biography and career.
Meddeb was born in Tunis, French Tunisia, in 1946, into a learned and patrician milieu. His family’s origins stretch from Tripoli and Yemen on his mother’s side, to Spain and Morocco on his father’s
and Transcultural Writing in the Works of Abdelwahab Meddeb", in L’Esprit créateur, Lexington, Ky  Vol. XLI, No. 3, Fall 2001, pp. 105–113.
External links.
- Signandsight.com Abdelwahab Meddeb: The Pornography of Horror
- Michael Mönninger, Abdelwahab Meddeb: Islam's Heritage of Violence
- The English Pen Online World Atlas - Abdelwahab Meddeb
- Sweeping Our Own Backyard: UNESCO
- Abdelwahab Meddeb—Islam and the Enlightenment
- The international artist database