Mohamed Jamoussi (born July 12, 1910 in Sfax

Sfax

Sfax is a city in Tunisia, located southeast of Tunis. The city, founded in AD 849 on the ruins of Taparura and Thaenae, is the capital of the Sfax Governorate , and a Mediterranean port. Sfax has population of 340,000...

 and died on January 3, 1982) was a famous Tunisia

Tunisia

Tunisia , officially the Tunisian RepublicThe long name of Tunisia in other languages used in the country is: , is the northernmost country in Africa. It is a Maghreb country and is bordered by Algeria to the west, Libya to the southeast, and the Mediterranean Sea to the north and east. Its area...

n singer, composer and poet.

Career

Jamoussi became the artistic director of the Opéra d'Alger from 1948 to 1951, while still pursuing his comedic career in Nahad with Youssef Wahby. In 1952 he left Egypt and went to Europe, where he appeared in three Italian and one Indian film. After Tunisian independence, in the 1960s he returned to the country.