Najma Kousri is a Tunisian feminist and LGBT-rights activist.
13 Facts About Najma Kousri
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Najma Kousri is a campaigner for LGBT rights and her photographic project documenting the lives of same-sex couples went viral in 2017.
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Najma Kousri has a Tunisian degree which licences her to practice law and she studied for a master's degree in Sweden, with a dissertation that focused on digital technology and social change.
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Najma Kousri says her political activism is a product of her family's struggles against former the authoritarian president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
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Najma Kousri has added a voice of criticism to the work of Tunisian politician Monia Ibrahim who opposed a law that would expand women's rights in the country.
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Najma Kousri described the success of the movement as owing a debt to the way that women in Egypt had spoken out for their own civil rights.
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Najma Kousri is a co-coordinator with the Association Tunisienne des Femmes Democrates, a feminist campaign organisation.
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Najma Kousri is an active advocate for LGBT rights in Tunisia, where homosexuality is illegal.
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Najma Kousri condemned the actions of journalist Mona Iraqi, who published the identities of 26 men arrested at a Cairo hammam on charges of "indecency".
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In 2015 Najma Kousri posted a series of images of same-sex couples on social media, which went viral.
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Najma Kousri was one of the speakers at the WorldPrideSummit in 2017 in Madrid.
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Najma Kousri led a discussion about LGBTQIA+ in Africa with Kasha Nabagesera from Uganda, South African Yahia Zaidi, Alimi Bisi Ademola from Nigeria and Michele Ndoki from Cameroon.
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In 2017, Najma Kousri was fired by the fundraising department of SOS Children's Villages, as a direct result of her activism.