Mohsen Hamli (b. 1952 in Beja, Tunisia); former Professor of English at the universities of Kairouan, Manouba (Tunisia), and Tripoli (Libya). My first novel, Heat (1995) was followed by The Dog Days (1997), The Wooden Cow (2003), The Sorcerer and Other Stories (2010), The Sacred Furrow (2012), The Cadi's Odalisks (2018), and The Amulet (2020). And beside a few critical works on Margaret Drabble (1997, 2002, 2011), Iris Murdoch (2003), and Salman Rushdie (2004, 2009), I wrote on the ordeal of the Tunisian Jews during the French Protectorate (2010, 2018, 2019).