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Place of Birth: Tunis, Tunis Governorate, Tunisia
About Kamel Riahi
- Kamel Riahi (???? ???????), born 1974 in Manafikh, Tunisia), is a Tunisian writer.
- He teaches in Algeria.
- Excerpts from two of his novels have been translated into English: The Scalpel and Gorilla.
- Riahi has been translated into English, French, Italian and Hebrew.
- He was one of the 39 Arab writers under 40 years who were selected for the anthology Beirut39. In an interview 'White Skin, Black Mask', Kamel Riahi explained: "It might come as a surprise to you to learn that Negro was the term people called my black grandfather.
- I consider myself as someone of a Negro descent, although I am not black.
- Perhaps my wide nose proves this theory.
- Therefore, I am sympathetic towards the blacks ideologically, by heritage and by history.
- We, the whites, will not be liberated until we liberate ourselves from the racist views we have of other races and religions."
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