Arab Women by Nationality - Tunisian

 
Houda Kanoun

Tunisian

1940-

Politician

  • educated at Universitie des lettres,, des Arts et des Sciences Humaines (Tunis)
  • Deputy Mayor of Sfaz 1975-80
  • General Secretary of Feminine Youth 1974-81
  • Member of Central Committee Consitutional Democratic Rally 1988-
  • Member of Assemblee Nationale (Parliament) 1989-
  • 2000 appointed Tunisian ambassador to Switzerland

International Who’s Who of Women. 6th ed. London: Routledge, 2008. Print. p.434. (DWC collection REF CT3202.I58 2008)
Nabiha Gueddana Tunisian

Politician and Professor of Medicine

  • Secretary of State for Social Advancement 1989-92
  • Secretar of State for Women's Affairs and the Family 1992-3
  • Professor of Preventative and Social Paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Tunis 1993-4
  • President and Director-General of National Office of the Family and Population, Ministry of Health 1994-

The International Who's Who of Women 3rd ed. Europa Publications: London, 2002 p.222

http://www.washington-report.org/backissues/1196/9611072.htm

Sabiha Khemir

Tunisian

b. 1959

Artist

  • educated at London University (PhD in Islamic Art and Archaeology) and University of Pennsylvania, Post Doctoral Fellow in the History of Art Departmen
  • exhibited works in France, United Kingdom, and United States.
  • illustrative work includes
  • 1994 The Island of Animals Quartet, London
  • 1978 Le Nuage Amoureux, Maspero, Paris
  • 1975 L'Ogresse Maspero, Paris
  • 1993 published first novel Waiting in the future for the past to come

Lloyd, Fran, ed. Contemporary Arab Women’s Art: Dialogues of the Present. London: WAL (Women’s Art Library), 1999. Print. p.136-137, 195-198. (DWC collection N6260.C65 1999)

Zohra ben Lakhdar

 Tunisian

Scientist - professor of molecular spectroscopy

  • educated at University of Paris VI and Univeristy of Tunis
  • Professor of Physics, University of Tunis 1992-
  • Founder member of Tunisian Physics Society, Tunisian Astronomy Society
  • Fellow of Islamic Academy of Sciences

International Who’s Who of Women. 6th ed. London: Routledge, 2008. Print. p.480. (DWC collection REF CT3202.I58 2008)

http://www.ias-worldwide.org/profiles/prof40.htm