Amel Mokhtar (Arabic: آمال مختار, romanized: ʾĀmāl Mukhtār; born February 4, 1964) is a Tunisian journalist and novelist.
Mokhtar was born in the town of Maktar in the Siliana Governorate, Tunisia.
She completed a bachelor's degree in Natural Science at the University of Tunis and began a career in journalism in 1985.
[1] Mokhtar published many short stories in Tunisian newspapers and Arab literary magazines.
[2] She then published a short story collection entitled La taʿshiqī hādha al-rajul and her novel al-Kursī al-hazzāz in 2003.