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Jamila Ksiksi

Tunisian politician (1968–2022) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jamila Ksiksi
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Jamila Debbech Ksiksi (Arabic: جميلة دبش كسيكسي; 14 August 1968 – 19 December 2022) was a Tunisian politician from Ennahda. In 2014, she was elected to the Assembly of the Representatives of the People becoming the country's first Black woman MP.[1] She was a prominent activist in the Tunisian anti-racist movement and supported Law 50 which criminalizes racial discrimination.[2][3]

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Ksiksi in 2014

On 19 December 2022, she was killed alongside her sister in a traffic collision near Sfax, at the age of 54.[4]

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