Our dear teachers ;

Hassine Ben Azouna was born in 1948 in La Goulette, Tunisia. He is currently working as Maître-Assistant, in the English Department, Faculty of Letters, in Arts and Humanities at University La Manouba. His qualifications include a Diplôme de Recherches Approfondies in 1988, Faculty of Letters, La Manouba. On the subject of: "Crisis in the Fiction of John Updike".

Publications include in 2000: "The significance of Dualities in the Fiction of John Updike", English Studies Series, Faculté des Lettres de la Manouba, Université de Tunis I, Dualities, ed. By H. Ajroud, pp. 125-147

1999: "America in Africa: John Updike's Paradox in The Coup," Revue Tunisienne des Langues Vivantes, Faculté des Lettres de la Manouba, Université de Tunis I, No.9, pp.49-57

1994: "The Persisting Myth of America as Eden in the Fiction of John Updike," Revue Tunisienne des Langues Vivantes, Faculté des Lettres de la Manouba , Université de Tunis I, pp. 109- 121

Forthcoming Publications include: American Literature Survey (with a Selection of Texts): 1620- to the Present, in collaboration with Dr. H. Miladi, ed. By the Centre de Publication Universitaire

Research scholarships July 1983: British Library, London

October 1984- July 1985: Fulbright student at Harvard College, Boston, USA

Seminars September- October 1995: "The Literature of Ethnicity in the United States" (Salzburg Seminar, Centre for the Study of American Culture and Language, Austria)

May- July 1997: "The American Experience for Foreign University Educators" (The Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research, New York, USA)

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