This is a list of women writers who were born in

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Ines Abassi Ines Abassi (born 1982) is a Tunisian poet and journalist. She has published two volumes of poetry to date, both of which have received regional literary awards. She also spent a six-month residency in Seoul and wrote ''Tales of the Korean Scheher ...

(born 1982), poet, journalist *

Faouzia Aloui Faouzia Aloui ( ar, فوزية العلوي) (born in 1957 in Kasserine) is a Tunisian poet and fiction writer. She is a teacher of Arabic literature Arabic literature ( ar, الأدب العربي / ALA-LC: ''al-Adab al-‘Arabī'') is the ...

(born 1958), poet, novelist * Hind Azouz (1926–2015), short story writer, essayist

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* Hélé Béji (born 1948), novelist, essayist *

Souhayr Belhassen Souhayr Belhassen (born 1943 Gabès, Tunisia) is a Tunisian human rights activist and journalist. She has served as the President of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) based in Paris since April 26, 2007. Belhassen is a vocal cri ...

(born 1943), journalist, women's rights activist * Essma Ben Hamida (born 1951), journalist, entrepreneur *

Néjia Ben Mabrouk Néjia Ben Mabrouk (born 1 July 1949) is a Tunisian screenwriter and director, known for her work on the award-winning film '' Sama'' and on the documentary '' The Gulf War... What Next?''. Early life and education Ben Mabrouk was born at El Ou ...

(born 1949), screenwriter *

Lina Ben Mhenni Lina Ben Mhenni ( ar, لينا بن مهني) (22 May 1983 – 27 January 2020) was a Tunisian Internet activist, blogger and lecturer in linguistics at Tunis University. She was internationally recognised for her work during the 2011 Tunisian re ...

(1983–2020), linguist, activist, writer and blogger * Sihem Bensedrine (born 1950), journalist, human rights activist * Sophie Bessis (born 1947), Tunisian-born French historian and feminist *

Noura Borsali Noura Borsali (Arabic: نورة البورصالي) (19 August 1953 – 14 November 2017) was a Tunisian academic, journalist, writer, literary critic and film critic, as well as a trade unionist, a human rights activist and a figure of Tunisian ...

(1953–2017), journalist, writer and feminist *

Messaouda Boubaker Messaouda Boubaker ()(born 19 February 1954) is a Tunisian novelist and short story writer who writes in Arabic. After the Tunisian Revolution, Boubaker joined the country's civil society organizations as a political activist. In response to a yo ...

(born 1954), novelist, short story writer * Dorra Bouzid (born 1933), journalist, art critic and feminist

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* Aïcha Chaibi, novelist * Amira Charfeddine (fl. 2019), novelist * Djemâa Chraïti (born 1960), writer * Rachida el-Charni (born 1967), short story writer and novelist * Mounira M. Charrad (born 1942), Franco-Tunisian sociologist active in the United States

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Fadela Echebbi Fadela Echebbi ( ar, فضيلة الشابي ') (23 January 1946) is a Tunisian poet. Echebbi was born in Tozeur, Tunisia, on 23 January 1946, the cousin of the famous Tunisian poet Aboul-Qacem Echebbi. In 1971, she obtained her diploma in Arab ...

(born 1946), poet * Sophie el Goulli (1931–2015), poet, novelist, historian

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* Faten Fazaâ, novelist

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* Sophie el Goulli (1932–2015), writer and art historian * Amel Grami, academic, writer, and women's rights activist * Nidhal Guiga (born 1975), actress, playwright, screen writer and film director

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Gisèle Halimi Gisèle Halimi (born Zeiza Gisèle Élise Taïeb; 27 July 1927 – 28 July 2020) was a Tunisian-French lawyer, politician, essayist and Feminism in France, feminist activist. Biography Zeiza Gisèle Élise Taïeb was born in La Goulette, Tunisi ...

(1927–2020), feminist writer, lawyer *

Fethia Hechmi Fethia Hechmi () (b. 1955) is a Tunisian novelist. She published her first collection of poems entitled ''al-Uqḥuwān al-maṣlūb alā al-shifah'' in 2002, and her first novel ''Ḥāfiyat al-rūḥ'' (novel) in 2002. Her 2009 novel ''Maryam ta ...

(born 1955), poet and novelist

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* Sabiha Khemir (born 1959), novelist, non-fiction writer, illustrator, artist

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Meherzia Labidi Maïza Meherzia Labidi Maïza ( ar, محرزية العبيدي معيزة;17 December 1963 – 22 January 2021) was a Tunisian politician and professional translator and interpreter. She became the first deputy speaker of the Constituent Assembly ...

(1963–2021), politician, translator and writer * Latifa Lakhdar (born 1956), historian and politician *

Dalenda Larguèche Dalenda Bouzgarrou-Larguèche (; born 1953), better known as Dalenda Larguèche, is a Tunisian historian specializing in the early modern period and women in Islamic societies. She is also a longtime political activist, particularly focused on th ...

(born 1953), historian and women's rights activist

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Sonia Mabrouk Sonia Mabrouk (; born 1977) is a Tunisian-born journalist who in 2010 obtained French nationality. After first embarking on an academic career in Tunisia, in 2005 she turned to journalism, writing for the magazine ''Jeune Afrique''. In 2009, she ...

(born 1977), Tunisian-born French journalist and author *

Lamia Makaddam Lamia Makaddam ( ar, لمياء المقدم) (born 1971 in Sousse) is a Tunisian poet, journalist and translator. Biography Lamia Makaddam was born in 1971 in Sousse, Tunisia. She began writing poetry at an early age and, despite having no fe ...

(born 1971), poet, journalist and translator * Boutheina Jabnoun Marai, contemporary journalist, magazine publisher * Samar Samir Mezghanni (born 1988), Arabic-language children's writer *

Nabiha Ben Miled Nabiha Ben Miled ( ar, نبيــهة بــن ميلاد, 4 March 1919-6 May 2009) was a pioneering Tunisian women's rights activist and nationalist. She was a leading voice in the press speaking for women's rights and Tunisian independence from ...

(1919–2009), feminist and social justice advocate *

Emna Mizouni Emna Mizouni ( ar, آمنة الميزوني; born 1987) is a Tunisian online and human rights activist, free-lance journalist, communications expert and business executive. After successfully helping to prepare RightsCon Tunis, in July 2019, Acc ...

(fl. since 2013), journalist, communications expert, Wikimedian of the Year 2019 *

Amel Mokhtar Amel Mokhtar (; born February 4, 1964) is a Tunisian journalist and novelist. She has won several prizes, including the COMAR Special Prize in 2006 for her novel ''Māystrū'' (Maestro). Biography Mokhtar was born in the town of Maktar in the Sil ...

(born 1964), journalist and novelist * Amel Moussa (fl. 1990s), poet

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Perpetua Perpetua and Felicity ( la, Perpetua et Felicitas) were Christian martyrs of the 3rd century. Vibia Perpetua was a recently married, well-educated noblewoman, said to have been 22 years old at the time of her death, and mother of an infant son s ...

(died 203), writer of a prison diary from

Carthage Carthage was the capital city of Ancient Carthage, on the eastern side of the Lake of Tunis in what is now Tunisia. Carthage was one of the most important trading hubs of the Ancient Mediterranean and one of the most affluent cities of the classi ...

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The Passion of Perpetua and Felicity ''The Passion of Saints Perpetua and Felicity'' ( la, Passio sanctarum Perpetuae et Felicitatis) is a diary by Vibia Perpetua describing her imprisonment as a Christian in 203, completed after her death by a redactor. It is one of the oldest and ...

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Naziha Réjiba Naziha Réjiba ( aeb, نزيهة رجيبة) also known as ''Om Ziad'' () is a Tunisian journalist. She edits the online journal Kalima. In 2000, Réjiba co-founded Kalima, along with Sihem Bensedrine. In 2001, Réjiba and Bensedrine founded O ...

, journalist, founded the online journal Kalima in 2000

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* Amina Said (born 1953), French-language poet, short story writer, essayist

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* Alia Tabaï (born 1961), novelist * Najiya Thamir (1926–1988), essayist, short story writer, playwright, novelist, women's rights activist

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Fawzia Zouari Fawzia Zouari ( ar, فوزية الزواري), born 10 September 1955 in Dahmani, is a Tunisian writer and journalist. Biography She was born in Dahmani, about 30 kilometers south-east of Kef, south-west of Tunis, one of six sisters and four brot ...

(born 1955), writer and journalist

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