Veteran Tunisian critic, academic and author Hussein Al Wad has passed away on Saturday, June 2, 2018. He was 70. Al Wad leaves behind a rich cultural legacy.<\/p>\n
According to Tunis Afrique Presse, the late Al Wad passed away in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, where he had been hospitalized after a health crisis.<\/p>\n
Al Wad was born in Moknine in northern Tunisia and obtained a Ph.D. in Arabic language and literature in 1987 from the University of Tunis.<\/p>\n
He filled a number of academic positions including Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities in Kairouan, Director of the Bourguiba Institute of Living Languages, and Tunisia\u2019s Representative at the Executive Council of the Arab Leaque Educational and Cultural Organization (ALECSO).\u00a0 He was also a professor at King Saud University in Riyadh.<\/p>\n
He authored numerous publications in the fields of literature and poetry such as \u201cOn the History of Literature: Concepts and Approaches\u201d, \u201cThe Aesthetics of the Ego in the Poetry of Al A\u2019sha Al Kabeer\u201d, \u201cSome Literature and Language\u201d, \u201cLanguage and Poetry in the Poetry Collection of Abi Tammam\u201d, \u201cApplying \u2018Hirba\u2019 Al Naqd\u2019 to the Poetry in the Abbasid Era\u201d.<\/p>\n
In 2011, he won the Golden Comar Award for Arabic Literature for his novel, \u201cScents of the City\u201d. Moreover, his second novel \u201cHis Excellency the Minister\u201d was shortlisted for the 2013 Arabic Booker Prize. In 2018, Al Wad won the Tawfiq Bakkar Recognition Award for the body of his works from the Tunis International Book Fair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Veteran Tunisian critic, academic and author Hussein Al Wad has passed away on Saturday, June 2, 2018. He was 70. Al Wad leaves behind a rich cultural legacy. According to Tunis Afrique Presse, the late Al Wad passed away in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, where he had been hospitalized after a health crisis. Al […]<\/p>\n