Department of Narrative and Criticism

Mrs. Rahma Al-Buheiri – Tunisia (Head of the Department of Narrative and Criticism)

is a Tunisian writer and literary critic whose work explores short fiction and creative writing as a laboratory for language and meaning. Her interests span short stories and hybrid prose–poetry forms, with critical inquiries into voice and perspective, character construction, sentence rhythm, and cross-genre dialogue. She blends aesthetic sensitivity with methodological rigor, drawing on contemporary narratology, reader-response theory, and stylistic analysis, while insisting on meticulous language editing that reveals layered significations. Al-Buheiri mentors emerging authors through carefully designed reading and writing workshops that move from early concept to a ready-to-publish manuscript, supported by practical follow-ups for pitching and showcasing. Her short stories and critical essays appear on Arab cultural platforms, and she is developing a new narrative project that fuses formal experimentation with broader human questions, grounded in a belief in literature’s role in refining taste and cultivating thoughtful public consciousness.