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| EPISODE 9

“Always laughing… Always vibrant”

From Aissaouiet el Balout to Saleh al-Khamisi, irony is society’s antidote to an increasingly painful reality...
29 March 2022
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Created by
Rabeb Srairi
Mixing - Sound Design
Oussema Gaidi
Illustrations
Tayma Ben Ahmed

Humour and irony occupy an important place in the cultures of various peoples. They have been translated and transposed into many artistic expressions - individual or collective - for the purpose of political, social or intellectual criticism.

Although the humorous and satirical song does not have a long-standing history in Tunisia, it has had some impactful moments. The collective memory has preserved the traces of this impact - whether deliberately or spontaneously - and has recorded names and works that encompass the historical and contextual evolution of the comedy song, from colonial times to the post-independence period, and the construction of the national state.

This popular form of lyrical theatre from the heart of the capital has endured since the 1930s, from Aissaouiet el Balout to more advanced experiments in terms of form and content, such as Al-Samlali, al-Jaziri and al-Jarari, and Saleh al-Khamisi in particular...

As different and varied these experiments may be, they have a common denominator, namely the use of comedy and irony as a form of resistance. This is a defence mechanism that society creates to cope with its woes, express its problems and place itself at the heart of the struggle against the various forms and representations of power.

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Tbarbich is an monthly series, exploring the very heart of Tunisian popular culture and its various forms of expression. Folk tales, songs, dances and well-known characters - immerse yourself in the stories that have been collecting dust in the scattered corners of the Tunisian collective memory. 

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