In 2013, she wrote and directed a semi-autobiographical play “The Sin of Success” thanks to the support of the Academy of Arts of the World, Cologne. In this play, Meriam Bousselmi brought together five actresses from four Arab countries: Algeria, Morocco, Syria and Egypt to draw up an inventory of the situation of women’s rights and the difficulties related to the exercise of their artistic careers in a patriarchal context.

In 2014, Meriam Bousselmi tackled the discourse of manipulation through the writing and staging of the monodrama “What the dictator did not say” at the Grand Théâtre de la Ville de Luxembourg. A year later, she created a second staging in co-production with the Nomadic Arts Center MOUSSEM and presented the new version at the Festival Off of Avignon, the Bozar in Brussels and the Academy of Arts in Berlin.

In addition, Meriam Bousselmi was the first Arab playwright invited to the Festival of European Contemporary Playwrights 2015 in Denmark. Her monologue “What the dictator did not say” was translated into Danish by the writer-translator Per Aage Brandt on a commission from the director Jacob F. Schokking (Holland House) who staged the text two times. The Danish Premiere of “Det som Dikatatoren ikke sagde” took place in 2016 on one of Copenhagen’s most prestigious stages, the Takkelloftet, and was to critical acclaim.

2016-2017, Meriam Bousselmi was invited to a 12-month artistic residence in Berlin as part of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin program. She decided then to settle in the German capital. In her new projects, the Tunisian writer and director seeks to place her work in the new dynamic linked to the context of her immigration to Germany. She develops transcultural projects which question the notions of dialogue, translation, transfer of knowledge and experiences between languages ​​and cultures. She wrote and directed “A Look at the World” in 2017, a 50-minute performance in total darkness that explores the sources of hope and resistance. In 2019, she wrote and directed the monologue “HomeWord” which deals with the need for poetry and the power of words by exploring the biography of German poet Hilde Domin. In 2020, she wrote and directed “The Beauty in Between” which questions the limits of translation and the possibilities of communication in what she calls the “jungle of languages”. Because words don’t just tell History, they make it.

In 2021, Meriam Bousselmi is a writer in residence at the Heinrich-Böll Haus in Langenbroich where she is working on a new play: “The Courage Factory”.