Number One

In Number One (2020), my third volume, there are 72 poems, spotting the light on political, social, cultural, and religious issues within the Tunisian and international contexts. Everyone has to be number one, for being so, entails aiming high, alleviating pain, and fulfilling dreams. Writing about famous political leaders translates the gift of choosing to be a hero in one's country. One also points at the contentious gender debate, initiated by the French existential philosopher Simone de Beauvoir in her famous statement "one is not born, but rather becomes a woman", though Julia Kristeva later indicates that one may mirror man and woman alike.