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unusual facts about Sidi Bou Said


Gustave-Henri Jossot

Gustave-Henri Jossot, also known as Abdul Karim Jossot (Dijon, France, April 16, 1866 – Sidi Bou Said, Tunisia, April 7, 1951), was a French caricaturist, illustrator, poster designer, Orientalist painter, writer and thinker.


Beji Caid el Sebsi

Born in Sidi Bou Said in a family from the beylical agricultural makhzen, he is great-grandson of Ismail Caid Essebsi, a mamluk of Tunisian corsairs in Sardinia at the beginning of the 19th century, raised with the beylical family and later an important member of the beylical administration.


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