Amel Grami

Tunisian feminist scholar leading women's rights through education

Amel Grami emerged as a pivotal figure in North African feminism during the 1990s, championing women's education as a cornerstone of societal transformation. Born in 1965, she co-founded the Tunisian Women's Rights Association in 1993, which established the first women's university preparatory centers in rural areas. These programs enabled 12,000+ women to pursue higher education by 2000, doubling female enrollment rates in Tunisia's universities.

Grami's academic work challenged traditional gender roles through her seminal book 《Feminism and the Arab Spring》 (2011), which analyzed the intersection of education and political agency. Her development of the Gendered Pedagogy Framework influenced national curriculum reforms in Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco. During the 2011 Arab Spring, she organized cross-border academic networks that provided emergency education to 50,000 displaced women.

Her TEDx talk "Education as Liberation" (2013) became a viral resource in Arabic-speaking regions. Grami's current work focuses on digital literacy programs for nomadic Berber communities, using solar-powered tablets to deliver education in Tamazight. Over 80% of participants in her 2020 pilot achieved literacy within 6 months, per UNESCO reports.