Faouzia Charfi

Faouzia Farida Charfi (born 1941 in Sfax, née Rekik) is a Tunisian scientist, intellectual and politician.

Charfi graduated from the Sorbonne, Paris, in 1963 in physical sciences, then gained doctorates in 1978 and 1984 from the Faculty of Science of Tunis [fr] which is part of Tunis El Manar University.

[1] She became the Tunisian Minister of State for Education in 2011.

[1][2][3][4] In 1997 she was appointed a Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur, and in 2001 a Commandeur des Palmes Académiques.

[1] In 2019 she was awarded the Chair's medal of the Arab World Institute in recognition of her work against islamic fundamentalism.