Alia Tabaï (Arabic: علياء التابعي‎, romanized: ‘Alyā’ al-Tābi‘ī) (b. 1961) is a Tunisian novelist. Her novel, Cactus Flowers, is notable for its use of Tunisian Arabic in its dialogues and has been translated into French. Though the novel is written in Standard Arabic, the dialogue is in Tunisian Arabic. To facilitate understanding for non-Tunisian Arab readers, the author provides extensive footnotes translating the Tunisian dialogue into Standard Arabic.