Amira Charfeddine (Arabic: أميرة شرف الدين, romanized: ʾAmīrah Sharf al-Dīn) is a Tunisian novelist.
[1] It was awarded the Ali Douagi prize from the Derja Association for best work written in Tunisian Arabic in 2019.
As he reaches adolescence, he finds himself unable to be attracted to his girlfriend who—after catching him about to kiss his male best friend in the library—outs him to his mother.
His family refuse to let him back into the house and Fadhil is forced to live on the streets, where he discovers a seedy and dangerous underside of Tunis few have seen.
[1] Charfeddine has expressed that her motivation in writing the book was to show the pain and suffering that homosexuals in Tunisia endure, and to make the readers empathize with their experience.