突尼斯现代文学的奠基工作是在十九世纪下半叶开始的。1860年,突尼斯有了印刷业。同年,出现了《向导报》——这是突尼斯的海尔丁(1826～1889)倡导的改良运动的重要成果之一。担负该报编辑工作的主要是海尔丁的追随者, The founding work of Tunisian modern literature began in the second half of the nineteenth century. In 1860, there was printing in Tunisia. In the same year, the “Herald” appeared - one of the important achievements of the reform movement advocated by Hardenin (1826-1889) in Tunisia. The chief contributor to the newspaper’s editorial was Hailing’s followers,