Moncef Ouahibi

In 1996, Ouahibi wrote and wrote the script for the fictional documentary "Oh A Country Like Me," directed by Hisham Al-Jarbi, which centers around the 1914 visit of painter Paul Klee to Tunis, Hammamet and Kairouan. He co-wrote the film “Waiting for Ibn Rushd” for the same director in 1998.

He has also worked translating poetry into Arabic. In 1984, he translated, with Muhammad al-Ghazzi, the collection of Under the Aquarius by the Swedish Nobel Committee member, Uston Shustrand. He also worked with the Portuguese poet Rosa Alice Branco to translate her poem "What Is Missing Green to Be a Tree" in 2002 and in the publication of "The Palm of Kairouan" in Arabic and Portuguese in 2003.

Selected poems from his collections have been translated into French, English, German, Spanish, Portuguese and Swedish. He has several articles on the Alawan website and works as director of the "Ataba Cultural" association in Porto, Portugal.^[3]

• Aboul-Qacem Echebbi Prize for Poetry, 1999
• COMAR d'Or Prize, 2012
• 'Akaaz Poetry Prize, 2014
• The Foundation of Abdulaziz Saud Al-Babtain's Prize for Poetic Creativity, 2014^[4]
• Sheikh Zayed Book Award, 2020^[5]