Beyond the (sur)Face (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781539546573)

Olfa Philo (Drid) is an engagé writer and poetess from Tunisia and holds a PhD in American Literature. Her cause as a writer is to voice the buried emotions and phobias of the oppressed and downtrodden, as well as to unmask and expose hidden truths socially considered taboo or shameful. She is a female rebel at heart who wages war against injustice, marginalization, intimidation, objectification, subjugation and violence against the inferior and powerless groups. Her poems have appeared in many international anthologies of poetry and in different online and print literary journals in Canada, USA, UK, India, China, Philippines, Albania, Uzbekistan, Serbia, Belgium, Iraq and Italy. Some of her poems have been translated into Arabic, Serbian, Chinese, Albanian, Spanish and Assamese. Thus far, Olfa Philo has published a play entitled Sublime Revenge, a collection of poetry entitled (Un)jailed and another collection entitled Female Aches. She has recently created her youtube channel where she uploaded some videos of her recited and illustrated poems. https: //www.youtube.com/channel/UChMcYZtsitYOCixxYM5Kz5g