:Mustapha Khayati

{{Short description|Tunisian member of the Situationist International}}

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Mustapha Khayati is a Tunisian social critic, and was a member of the Situationist International in the 1960s.{{cite book |last=Willener |first=Alfred |year=2013 |title=The Action-Image of Society on Cultural Politicization |publisher=Routledge |page=127 |isbn=9781136446924}}

Though collaborating with other Situationists, he was the chief author of the pamphlet De la misère en milieu étudiant considérée sous ses aspects économique, politique, psychologique, sexuelet notamment intellectuel et de quelques moyens pour y remédier (English: On the Poverty of Student Life Considered in Its Economic, Political, Psychological, Sexual, and Especially Intellectual Aspects, With a Modest Proposal for Doing Away With It, aka On the Poverty of Student Life).{{cite book |last=Horn |first=Gerd-Rainer |year=2007 |title=The Spirit of '68: Rebellion in Western Europe and North America, 1956–1976 |url=https://archive.org/details/spiritrebellionw00horn |url-access=limited |publisher=Oxford University Press |page=[https://archive.org/details/spiritrebellionw00horn/page/n22 12] |isbn=9780199276660}}{{cite news |first=Stanley|last=Blair|title=France ’68: When students and workers revolted |url=https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/france-68-when-students-and-workers-revolted |access-date=10 May 2019 |work=Green Left Weekly |date=17 June 2018 |language=en}} This pamphlet has been translated into English by Chris Gray and Ken Knabb.{{Cite web|url=https://stewarthomesociety.org/blog/archives/1451|title=King Mob’s Chris Gray RIP|language=en-GB|access-date=2019-11-28}}{{cite web|url= http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/poverty.htm|title=On the Poverty of Student Life|language=en-US|access-date=2021-06-03}}

Ten thousand copies of On the Poverty of Student Life were printed at the expense of the Association Fédérative Générale des Étudiants de Strasbourg.{{Cite journal|last=Corcos|first=Alex|title=Mouvement/Occupation/Debout: the Situationist International and their legacy of protest|url=https://www-tandfonline-com.ezp.lib.cam.ac.uk/doi/full/10.1080/09639489.2018.1424124?scroll=top&needAccess=true|journal=Modern & Contemporary France|jstor=}} Attacking the miserable conditions and subservient attitudes of university students and student radicals in capitalist societies, the pamphlet caused significant uproar, helped in the dissemination of Situationist ideas, and contributed to the emergence of the movement of May 1968 in France.