Noura Bensaad (Arabic: نورا بن سعد, romanized: Nūrā ben Saʿd) is a Francophone Tunisian writer who has been called the "Tunisian master of the short story." She was born in Salammbo (a district of Carthage), Tunisia, to a Tunisian father and a French mother. She attended university in Binzerte and graduated with a degree in French literature. Source: Wikipedia (en)