Abdelwahab Meddeb, Tunisian-French author, poet, and scholar (b. 1946)
Abdelwahab Meddeb (Tunisian Arabic: عبد الوهاب المدب; 1946 – 5 November 2014) was a French-language writer and cultural critic, and a professor of comparative literature at the University of Paris X-Nanterre.