Mohamed JOUILI

Mohamed Jouili, a graduate of the Sorbonne, is a research director in cultural anthropology at the Faculty of Letters of La Manouba in Tunisia. A renowned writer in North Africa and the Arab world, he has published six books on the oral storytelling tradition. He is considered a pioneer of the Arabophone anthropological school of folk tale studies, which succeeded the formalist school founded by Russian scholar Vladimir Propp in the Arab world.