[1] Director of the 33rd and the 34rd edition of the Tunis International Book Fair,[2] he is also a member of the editorial board of several refereed journals, including Ibla magazine (published by the Institute of Arabic Literature in Tunis) and Romano Arabica (published by The Centre for Arab Studies in Bucharest).
[3] In 2016, he was appointed by the President of the Republic of Tunisia as a member of the Higher Committee for Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.
[4] Shukri Mabkhout was propelled onto the international scene by his first novel al-Talyānī (The Italian), published in 2014.
The events of the novel unfold in Tunisia during the tumultuous late 1980s and early 1990s, and examine the political clashes between leftists and Islamists and the forces that brought Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali to power.
[6] Al-Talyānī was translated into English by Karen McNeil and Miled Faiza and was published as The Italian by Europa Editions in October 2021.