Zahira Ben Ammar

    Known For

    Acting

    Place of Birth

    Tunis

    Zahira Ben Ammar

    Biography

    A Tunisian writer, director and actress, born in Tunis. She contributed to the revival of the theater movement in Tunisia since its beginning in the eighties with the Triangle Theater Troupe, with which she began her career. She worked with major Tunisian directors and established a theater company in 2000 that wrote and directed many plays. She participated in several training courses in the theater. She formed a number of theatrical workshops based on the directives of the Ministry of Culture and Heritage Preservation in Tunisia. She won the Best Actress Award in the first edition of the Carthage Theater Days Festival, as well as the Prize for Literature and Arts awarded by the President of the Republic of Tunisia.

    Known For

    • Halfaouine: Boy of the Terraces

      Halfaouine: Boy of the Terraces

      1990

    • The Silences of the Palace

      The Silences of the Palace

      1994

    • باب العرش

      باب العرش

      2006

    • The Hotel

      The Hotel

      2004

    • Arab

      Arab

      1989

    • Silence... Classes Resume

      Silence... Classes Resume

      2022

    • Windmill

      Windmill

      2014