Ahlem Belhadj (Arabic: أحلام بالحاج, romanized: ʾAḥlām Bālḥājj; 1964 – 11 March 2023) was a Tunisian psychiatrist and women's rights campaigner.
Belhadj led a march of thousands of women against President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali during the 2011 Tunisian Revolution.
[1] Belhadj worked at the child and adolescent psychiatry department, Mongi Slim Hospital, University of Tunis El Manar.
[5][1] Her interest in revolutionary politics began after enrolling in medicine school in Tunisia back in the 80's, when she participated in movements against Ben Ali's system, specially by defending women's rights and her freedom.
[1] Described as the "Arab Spring's Tunisian Heroine", she won the Simone de Beauvoir Prize and placed 18th on Foreign Policy's 2012 list of global thinkers.