Salima Ghezali

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Salima Ghezali
سليمة غزالي
Ghezali in 2013
Born1958 (age 65–66)
NationalityAlgerian
OccupationJournalist
Known forWomen's rights
Awards

Salima Ghezali (Arabic: سليمة غزالي, romanizedSalīmah Ghazzālī; born 1958) is an Algerian journalist and writer.[1]

A founding member of Women in Europe and the Maghreb, president of the association for the advancement of women, editor of the women's magazine NYSSA, which she founded, and editor of the French-language weekly La Nation, Salima Ghezali is an activist of women's rights and human rights and democracy in Algeria.

In 1997 Ghezali won the Sakharov Prize[2] as well as the Olof Palme Prize.

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Ghezali's dangerous beat". Third World Network. Archived from the original on 2013-03-05. Retrieved 2010-04-12.
  2. ^ "Salima Ghezali 1997". 2008-12-04. Archived from the original on 2011-08-26.