Jalila Baccar

Jalila Baccar (Arabic: جليلة بكار, romanized: Jalīlah Bakkār; born 1952) is a Tunisian playwright and actor.

[1] When she graduated from school she joined a regional theatre company in Gafsa, an oasis and mining community in the south-west of Tunisia.

[6] Their play Amnesia "which details all the ills of Tunisia under the now defunct regime, with its nepotism and corruption, economic hardships and police surveillance"[7] was staged in Tunis in 2011, and then at the National Theatre in Bordeaux, France.

[7] In 2014, Baccar and Jaïbi sponsored the 76th class of the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts et Techniques du Théâtre de Lyon.

[8] Marvin Carlson describes Baccar as "generally recognized as one of the leading women playwrights and performers in Tunisia and the Arab world".