Mahmoud Messadi (1911-2004)
Michel Reference
TN 1707
Stanley Reference
TN 1688
Yvert Reference
TN 1686
Themes
personalities
Description
This visual is dedicated to Mahmoud Messadi (1911-2004), one of the greatest figures of Arabic letters and contemporary Tunisian thought. He is seen reading from his literary masterpiece, The Dam (Al-Sudd), a major philosophical work on the human condition and creation. Also a statesman and Minister of Education, Messadi forged the intellectual identity of post-independence Tunisia. This stamp honors the “thinker-writer” and recalls the importance of committed literature and the quest for meaning in the construction of national culture.
Size
28 x 41 mm
Colors
Polychrome
Designer
Skander Gader
Printers
Tunisia Post Printing House
Perforation
13
Print
Offset
Face Value
0,60 DT
Mint Value
1,73 $
Used Value
0,85 $
Print Run
1 000 000 exemplaires
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