Gilbert Naccache
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Gilbert Naccache 🇹🇳

جيلبار نقاش (Known as "Papi")
Leftist Intellectual, Agronomist, Anti-Authoritarian Writer, Author of Cristal
Born Jan 15, 1939 🇹🇳 Tunis, Tunisia
Passed Away Dec 26, 2020 Paris, France
Lifespan 81 years old
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"They locked my body in stone, but they could not build a wall thick enough to imprison my thought."

Archival Overview

Iconic Tunisian Jewish leftist intellectual, agronomist, and political dissident who endured fourteen years of imprisonment under Bourguiba, authoring the clandestine literary masterpiece Cristal on cigarette wrappers.

Biographical Record

Trained as an agronomist at the Institut National Agronomique in Paris, Gilbert Naccache was a co-founder of the clandestine leftist opposition movement Perspectives in the 1960s, fighting for peasant rights and freedom of expression.

Arrested in 1968 and sentenced to fourteen years in prison, he secretly drafted his masterpiece Cristal on the inner silver foil of cigarette packets. Following the 2011 Revolution, his testimony before the Truth and Dignity Commission stood as a monumental moment of national reconciliation.

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Final Resting Place

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Borgel Jewish Cemetery
Tunis, Tunisia
GPS: 36.8167, 10.1833
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