Moncef Ouahibi

(2014) Babtain Poetry Prize Muhammad Al-Moncef Al-Wahaibi (born 20 December 1949 Hajib el-Ayounin, Tunisia) is a Tunisian poet, writer and academic.

He obtained his master's degree with the thesis "The visible body and the imagined body in the poetry of Adonis;" his PhD thesis at the Manouba University[2] was on "The poetry industry of Abu Tammam and its components: in reading ancient and poetic text."

In 1984, he translated, with Muhammad al-Ghazzi, the collection of Under the Aquarius by the Swedish Nobel Committee member, Uston Shustrand.

Selected poems from his collections have been translated into French, English, German, Spanish, Portuguese and Swedish.

He has several articles on the Alawan website and works as director of the "Ataba Cultural" association in Porto, Portugal.