Hassouna Mosbahi (Arabic: حسونة المصباحي) (born 1950 in Dhehibat, Kairouan) is a Tunisian author, literary critic and freelance journalist.

Hassouna Mosbahi was born in 1950 in the village of Dhehibat in the governorate of Kairouan, Tunisia, and studied French at the Tunis University.

He suffered persecution at the hands of the government of Habib Bourghiba and so sought refuge in Europe, moving to Munich, Germany in 1985.

[4] In 2010 he refused a "Judges' Choice" prize from the Prix Littéraires COMAR D’OR for his novel Ramād al-ḥayāh (Ashes of life),[5] for what he described as "reasons he will keep to himself".

[3] Mosbahi has been vocal in his opposition to the 2011 Tunisian revolution in interviews[7][8] and speeches,[1] as well as in his 2015 novel ʼAšwāk wa-yāsamīn (Thorns and Jasmine).