Mohamed Khelifi, also known as Hammadi Khlifi, is the author of Escape, the book that earned him the prestigious Rambourg Foundation Award for Art and Culture in 2016. His articles have appeared in DAWN, Ultra Sawt, and other prominent media outlets across the MENA region. He was invited to give a speech and discuss his paper titled "Democratic Backsliding in Tunisia: Lessons for Democracy" at the MPAC annual conference in Washington D.C. in May 2025.
At MacDowell, Khelifi finished the draft of his third book, Thirty, that explores themes of immigration, political activism, and exile.
Studios
Chapman
Mohamed Khelifi worked in the Chapman studio.
Chapman
Studio was funded by Mrs. Alice Woodrough Chapman in memory of her
husband, composer George Alexander Chapman.
Symmetrically
massed, the building is stuccoed on the exterior with a natural,
unpainted cement. Its unusual half-timbered ornament consists of
slender, knotty spruce poles painted a dark green color. A central,
peak-roofed entrance porch appears on the north side…
