Research: "Political and civil poetry in the second half of the 20th century. A comparative study between some poems by Pier Paolo Pasolini and Nizar Qabbani in a European perspective"
Mohamed Fatnassi earned his degree in foreign languages and literatures in 2008-2009, at the University of Genoa with a thesis entitled "'Alā dhifāf al-giunūn (On the shores of madness) by Jabbar Yassin Hussin: translation and commentary", in which he highlighted themes of literary criticism and those of the relationship between writing&power. During the 2011-2012 at the same university, he obtained his Master in Comparative Literature, class of Modern European and American Languages and Literatures, with a thesis entitled "The homeland and the concept of a society of rights through the poetry of Nizar Qabbani: translation and commentary of the 'Qaṣā'id maġḏūb 'alayhā' (Cursed Poems)" in which literary analysis accompanied a study on the relationship between literature and socio-political development in the Arab world and on the influence in this context of "Western models” from the 1950s to the 1980s. Mohamed Fatnassi has been an university teacher (permanent assistant) since 2016 . He currently teaches Italian language and literature at the Higher Institute of Languages of Moknine, University of Monastir (Tunisia). Since 2022 he is PhD student in History of Europe at the University of Rome "La Sapienza" with a research project entitled "Political and civil poetry in the second half of the 20th century. A comparative study between some poems by Pier Paolo Pasolini and Nizar Qabbani in a European perspective".