Kamel Riahi

Kamel Riahi (كمال الرياحي), born 1974 in Manafikh, Tunisia), is a Tunisian writer. He teaches in Algeria.[1] Excerpts from two of his novels have been translated into English: The Scalpel [2] and Gorilla.[3] 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.

Kamel Riahi

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." [4]

Works
  • in Samuel Shimon (ed.) (2010): Beirut 39: New Writing From The Arab World. New York: Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-1-4088-0612-8. -- excerpt from al-Mishraṭ (The Scalpel).
  • 1999 Nawāris al-dhākira. Tunis:
  • 2001 Suriq wajhī. Tunis: Kamāl al-Riyāḥī. ISBN 9973301498
  • 2005 Ḥarakat Al-sard Al-riwaʾī Fi Istirātijiyāt Al-tashkīl. Amman: Dar Majdalawi Lil-Nashr Wa-al-Tawzi. ISBN 9789957021955
  • 2006 al-Mishraṭ : min sīrat Khadījah wa-aḥzānihā. Tūnis : Dār al-Janūb lil-Nashr
  • 2009 al-Kitābah al-riwāʼīyah ʻinda Wāsīnī al-Aʻraj : qirāʼah fī al-tashkīl al-riwāʼī li-Ḥārisat al-ẓilāl . Tūnis : Manshūrāt Kārim al-Sharīf.
  • 2009 Ainsi parlait Philippe Lejeune : écriture de soi, autobiographie, journal intime, autofiction, mémoires. Tunis: Travelling.
  • 2011 al-Ġūrīlā: riwāya. Bayrūt : Dār al-Sāqī. ISBN 1855168111
  • 2015 ʻAshīqāt al-nadhl : riwāyah. Bayrūt : Dār al-Sāqī.

References
  1. Beirut 39: Kamel Riahi
  2. The Scalpel (al-Mishraṭ) and The Scalpel, (trans. by Sami Lamine)
  3. Gorilla (al-Ġūrīlā) (trans. by Peter Clark)
  4. "White Skin, Black Mask": An Interview with Kamel Riahi
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