Identità come processo: la narrativa tunisina del 2025 alla Fiera del libro a Cairo

This article examines three Tunisian novels published in 2025 and presented at the Cairo International Book Fair: Blāṣ al-Yahūdī by Mīya al-Kasūrī, al-ʿUẓamāʾ Yamūtūna fī Abrīl by Amīra Ghanīm, and Ayyām al-Fāṭimī al-Maqtūl by Nizār Shaqrūwa. Starting from the idea of identity as a narrative and historical process, the article reads the Cairo Book Fair as a symbolic space in which national cultures stage and renegotiate their collective self-representations. The three novels approach Tunisian identity through different but connected figures: urban space and minority memory, the vulnerable body of the political leader, and genealogical investigation. Together, they show identity not as a fixed essence or celebratory monument, but as a fragile and stratified construction shaped by memory, omission, historical revision, and generational displacement. The article argues that contemporary Tunisian fiction participates in a broader Arabic literary effort to rethink national belonging as an open narrative process.