Born in 1953 in Ksar Hellal, in the Sousse region, Néjib Ayed is part of a generation that has combined a passion for cinema and an almost militant commitment within the Tunisian Federation of Film Clubs.

"He was the first to address sexual harassment on the screen," recalls feminist activist Mounira Hammami.

In 2008, in Tunisia still under authoritarian rule, La Chasse aux gazelles recounts the violence at work of a young woman employed in a textile factory and coveted by her superior.

It is one of ten soap operas broadcast on television during the month of Ramadan, a date that Tunisians love after the break in the fast.

Then, in 2015 and 2016, mafia, drugs, and organ trafficking were the subjects of the series Naouret El Hawa ("the windmill").