About Sleim Ammar
Lived 1927 – 1999 (aged 72). Sleim Ammar was a Tunisian psychiatrist, writer, psychotherapist, poet, physician and academic.
Sleim Ammar (Arabic: سليم عمار), born 30 June 1927 in Sousse, and died on 6 November 1999 in Le Plessis-Robinson, was a Tunisian neuropsychiatrist and poet.
He was one of the founders of Maghreb psychiatry and also a corresponding member of the Arab Academy of Damascus.
Works En souvenir de la médecine arabe - Quelques-uns de ses grands noms, Tunis, Imprimerie Bascone & Muscat, 1965. Poème de la médecine arabe, Tunis, Alif, 1990, 153 p. (ISBN 978-9973716187). Autopsie de la guerre, Tunis, L'Art de la composition, 1992, 168 p. (ISBN 978-9973172563). Poème de la folie, Tunis, L'Art de la composition, 1993, 302 p. (ISBN 978-9973173843). Ibn Al Jazzar et l'école médicale de Kairouan, Sousse, Faculté de médecine Ibn El Jazzar de Sousse, 1994, 135 p. (ISBN 978-9973174802). Itinéraires: 153 poèmes écrits de 1987 à 1993, 1995, 387 p. (ISBN 978-9973175243). Problèmes de notre temps: 167 poèmes écrits de 1988 à 1995, Ben Arous, Imprimerie principale, 1996, 479 p. (ISBN 978-9973176493). Abû Bekr Er-Razi, Rhazès: le Galien des arabes, 1997, 200 p. (ISBN 978-9973177575). Ibn Sina Avicenne: la vie et l'œuvre, Tunis, L'Or du Temps, 1998, 134 p. (ISBN 978-9973757432).
Awards 1966: Académie Nationale de Médecine, Paris 1973: Premier prix intermaghrébien de médecine, Tunis 1984: Prix Médecine Maghreb, Paris 1986: Prix national de la vulgarisation scientifique, Tunis 1992: Prix international de psychiatrie de la Fondation Saugstad (shared), Oslo
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Who was Sleim Ammar?
Tunisian writer and psychiatrist
When was Sleim Ammar born?
Sleim Ammar was born on 30 June 1927 in Sousse.
When did Sleim Ammar die?
Sleim Ammar died on 6 November 1999 in Paris, Le Plessis-Robinson.
What was Sleim Ammar's occupation?
Sleim Ammar was a psychiatrist, writer, psychotherapist, poet, physician and academic.
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Sleim Ammar was Tunisian.
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