Safi Saïd (Arabic: ?????? ?????) (born 22 September 1953) is a Tunisian journalist and writer.
He was a candidate in the 2014 Tunisian presidential election and in the 2019 presidential election.He is considered to be one of the major intellectuals in Tunisia since 2011, especially after the spread of his expression " the Arab Spring" that he coined to refer to the appraisals that took place across several countries in the Arab world back then.