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Tunisian novelist and journalist. He won the Beirut 39 competition organized by the High Festival Foundation in 2009. His novel The Lancet won the 2007 Kumar Golden Award for Best Tunisian Novel. He published "The Seagulls of Memory", "Stolen My Face", "The Narrative Movement and Its Climates", "The Narrative Writing of Wassini the Lame" and "Thus Philip Speaks to John". His works have been translated into French, Italian, English, Hebrew and Portuguese. Al-Riyahi holds a certificate of in-depth studies in narrative criticism of modern Arabic literature. He worked as a press reporter for many magazines, newspapers and websites, and presented and produced a number of television programmes. He received the Short Story Award in Cairo in 2005, and the Golden Kumar Award for the best Tunisian novel for the year 2007 for his novel The Lancet, and was crowned among the winners of the Beirut 39 competition for the year 2009. His beginning was in the early years of the university, during which he published two collections of short stories, namely the seagulls of memory in 1999 and stole my face in 2001. In the field of novel, he published the novel "The Lancet", and a critical book was published in Jordan entitled "The Narrative Narrative Movement and its Climates", which dealt with In it, with criticism and analysis, a number of Arab novels, including Tunisian, Moroccan, Jordanian and Algerian, and dealt in his second critical book, "The Narrative Writing of Wassini Al-Araj".