Abdelwahab Meddeb was born in 1946 in Tunis, French Protectorate Tunisia. He was an actor, known for Out of Cordoba: Averroes and Maimonides in Their Time and Ours (2009), C'est dur d'être aimé par des cons (2008) and Le film à venir (1997). He died on November 5, 2014 in Paris, Ile-de-France, France.