Aboul-Qacem Echebbi

Aboul-Qacem Echebbi
Native name
أبو القاسم الشابي
Born24 February 1909
Tozeur, Tunisia
Died9 October 1934(1934-10-09) (aged 25)
Tunis, Tunisia
Resting placeMausoleum of Abou El Kacem Chebbi, Tozeur
OccupationPoet
Literary movementNeo-romanticism, avant-garde, Apollo Society

Aboul-Qacem Echebbi (Arabic: أبو القاسم الشابي, ALA-LC: Abū al-Qāsim al-Shābbī; 24 February 1909 – 9 October 1934) was a Tunisian poet. He is probably best known for writing the final two verses of the current National Anthem of Tunisia, Humat al-Hima (Defenders of the Homeland), which was originally written by the Egyptian poet Mustafa Sadik el-Rafii.


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