A Tunisian film director, writer, critic and historian born in 1944 in Hammam-Lif, Tunisia. His film, Halfaouine: Boy of the Terraces, is considered his most famous film and it won him the Golden Tanit Award at the 1990 Carthage Film Festival. He worked as a journalist in the magazine Jeune Afrique, in addition to his work as a professor at the University of Tunis. He has published several books on the history of African and Arab cinema. Many of his documentaries were shown at international festivals, the most important of which is the Cannes Film Festival, where the film Caméra d'Afrique was shown in 1983, as well as Caméra Arabe in 1987.