Mehrezia labidi biography definition

Tunisian politician (1963–2021)

Meherzia Labidi Maïza (Arabic: محرزية العبيدي معيزة;17 December 1963 – 22 January 2021)^[1] was a Tunisian politician and professional translator and interpreter. She became the first deputy speaker of the Constituent Assembly of Tunisia.

Maïza was the most senior elected woman in the Middle East.^[2] She was proud of helping to include a clause to protect women's rights into Tunisia's post Arab Spring constitution.^[3]

Early life and education

Meherzia Labidi was born on 17 December 1963,^[4] in El Meziraâ in the town of Hammamet in Nabeul Governorate in North East Tunisia.

She graduated from a mixed high school in the town of Grombalia in 1982 and then moved south to study at the Ecole Normale Superieure in the city of Sousse.^[5]

Labidi-Maïza married in 1986 and went to France with her husband, who is a telecommunications engineer,^[6] to study in the Éco In Memoriam – Hon.

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