She began to campaign and meet with activists such as Ajmi Lourimi, who later became a member of Ennahdha's political bureau.

She was also a member of the executive Board of the Tunisian General Union of Students (UGTE).

[4] Her militant involvement earned her 15 days of imprisonment in 1985, while she tried to calm a violent quarrel between students.

In 1991, she began a militant course; her activism earned her an arrest and imprisonment as an opponent of the régime.

On 9 November 2011, she declared in a debate on Monte Carlo Doualiya that freedoms must be "framed by customs, traditions and respect for good morals"; she illustrated her point by denouncing single mothers, "an infamy, a plague on Tunisian society", which "should not aspire to a legal framework that protects their rights".