Moussa Ould Ebnou (Arabic: àÃÂóàÃÂÃÂï çèÃÂÃÂ, born 1956) is a professor of philosophy and a novelist from Mauritania.
Moussa Ould Ebnou was born in Boutilimit. He received a PhD from the Sorbonne in Paris. In 1984, he became a consultant for the United Nations Sudano-Sahelian Office (UNSO). In 2008, he became a professor of philosophy at the University of Nouakchott. He has also served as an advisor for the Mauritanian government.
He has published two novels in French: LâÂÂamour impossible (1990) and Le Barzakh (1994), which were later published in Arabic as çÃÂÃÂè çÃÂàóêÃÂÃÂà("al-Hubb al-Mustahil") (1999), and àïÃÂÃÂé çÃÂñÃÂçà(Madinat al-Riyah) (1996), respectively. He has translated his own work into Arabic.
Ebnou has also published other works in Arabic, including ÃÂì çÃÂÃÂìçñ (Hujj al-Fijar) (2003), and çÃÂçàëçàÃÂçÃÂÃÂÃÂàçÃÂôùèÃÂé çÃÂàÃÂñÃÂêçÃÂÃÂé (al-Imthal w'al-Hakm ash-Sha'biya al-Muritaniya).
Barzakh (referred to as The City of Winds) was listed by The National as one of the fifty most important Arabic novels of the twentieth century. The announcement called it "one of the most gripping dystopian tales to come out of the Arab world."