Kamal Al-Zoghbani … “The Happiness Machine” no longer responds



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At the age of 55, the Tunisian writer, novelist, thinker and leftist fighter Kamal Zoghbani (1965-2020) died yesterday, Monday, after suffering a sudden heart attack. The sad and unexpected news shocked the ranks of fans and followers of Al-Zoghbani, who had previously been crowned the “Al-Bashir Khareef Prize for Literary Creativity” in the novel about “The Makina of Happiness” (Dar Al- Tanweer) at the opening of the Tunis International Book Fair in 2017. He made his last gift to all the oppressed and oppressed. In Tunisia, it took about ten years to complete. It is a kind of melodrama that sheds light on the Tunisian reality in its philosophical dimension. It is globalization in which the human being has become a figure in the dictator’s utopian city, as some critics describe it.

Zoghbani was also a professor of philosophy at the University of Tunis, and wrote many books, including “Behemocracy and Revolution” and “Waiting for Life”, which won the Golden Komar Prize (a Tunisian literary prize), in addition to his collection of short stories. “The other …” and a long philosophical essays list. Al-Zoghbani believed that “the creative act is a revolution and a resistance in itself”, and used to avoid the charges, saying: “I will never be able to be a minister of culture because I will never be able to tolerate positions and I will never like chairs.”

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