Souad Abderrahim

Souad Abderrahim 2011

Souad Abderrahim ( Arabic سعاد عبد الرحيم, DMG Suʿād ʿAbd ar-Raḥīm , born December 16, 1964 in Sfax ) is a Tunisian manager and politician. She is a board member of the Ennahdha party and was elected mayor of Tunis in 2018 .

Life

Born in 1964 in the Mediterranean port city of Sfax and raised in Métouia , she studied pharmaceuticals in Monastir after graduating from high school in 1983 . There Abderrahim was elected to the scientific advisory board of their university and was a member of the board of the Islamic student organization UGET. She was temporarily detained and expelled from the university in connection with a conflict between left-wing and Islamic students; She was able to make up her degree in 1992 at the University of the North.

20 years outside of public political life followed. From 1992 Abderrahim worked as managing director and director for the pharmaceutical wholesaler Presta Pharm . Since the end of the autocratic regime and with the legalization of her party in 2011, she has been politically active again; in the election to the Constituent Assembly of Tunisia in 2011 , she stood for the Nahda list in the Tunis 2 constituency as the top candidate and was elected to the assembly until 2014.

Abderrahim is married and has a boy and a girl. According to a 2011 interview, her husband supports her in both the household and the pharmaceutical business so that she can devote herself to her political career.

In the local elections in Tunis in May 2018, she ran as an independent candidate at number 1 on the Ennahdha list. The party won a simple majority in the city council with 21 out of 60 seats. In the second ballot for the mayor's office, which was boycotted by left-wing parties and those from the middle of the political spectrum, she prevailed as mayor with 26 to 22 votes against Kamel Idir from the ruling party Nidaa Tounes . She is the first elected mayor of Tunis, because the office has been occupied by the president in the recent past .

Political positions

Abderrahim has not worn a headscarf since her professional career and sees herself as an “Islamic feminist” with a conservative family image. In 2011 she said in a radio interview that unmarried mothers are a “disgrace to Islamic society”, which led to controversy in Tunisia, where four children are born out of wedlock every day.

She takes the view that Islam and democracy are not mutually exclusive, which she would like to show in Tunisia as an example.

As mayor of Tunis, she names the development of local transport, a solution to the serious waste problem, financial support for schools and the beautification of urban green spaces as priorities. For juvenile offenders, she suggests converting their prison term into community service hours to make improvements for both the juvenile and the city.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Martin Gehlen: Souad Abderrahim, the powerful woman of Tunis. In: Frankfurter Rundschau. May 11, 2018, accessed July 5, 2018 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Elus - Souad Abderrahim. In: Marsad.tn. Retrieved July 5, 2018 (French).
^ ^A ^b ^c ^d Lilia Labidi: Parity Elections and the Struggle for Womens Rights . In: Fahed Al-Sumait, Nele Lenze, Michael C. Hudson (Eds.): The Arab Uprisings: Catalysts, Dynamics, and Trajectories . Rowman & Littlefield, 2014, ISBN 978-1-4422-3902-9 , pp. 188-189 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Frida Dahmani: Tunisie: Souad Abderrahim, le pasionaria d'Ennahdha se dévoile. In: Jeune Afrique. November 10, 2011, accessed July 5, 2018 (French).
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Diana Hodali: Tunisia's Ennahda party seeks modern image. In: Deutsche Welle. September 30, 2011, accessed July 5, 2018 .
↑ Zainab Touati, Sami Zlitni: Social networks and womens rights activism in postrevolutionary Tunisia . In: Muhamad Olimat (Ed.): Arab Spring and Arab Women (= Routledge international handbooks ). Routledge, 2013, ISBN 978-1-317-93738-8 , pp. 173 .
↑ Islamist-backed candidate becomes first woman mayor of Tunis. In: france24.com. July 3, 2018, accessed July 5, 2018 .
↑ Reiner Wandler: Feminist Islamist candidate. In: taz.de. June 21, 2018, accessed July 6, 2018 .

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personal data
SURNAME	Abderrahim, Souad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Tunisian politician, Mayor of Tunis
DATE OF BIRTH	December 16, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH	Sfax

[:0-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Martin Gehlen: Souad Abderrahim, the powerful woman of Tunis. In: Frankfurter Rundschau. May 11, 2018, accessed July 5, 2018 .

[:3-2] Elus - Souad Abderrahim. In: Marsad.tn. Retrieved July 5, 2018 (French).

[:4-3] A ^b ^c ^d Lilia Labidi: Parity Elections and the Struggle for Womens Rights . In: Fahed Al-Sumait, Nele Lenze, Michael C. Hudson (Eds.): The Arab Uprisings: Catalysts, Dynamics, and Trajectories . Rowman & Littlefield, 2014, ISBN 978-1-4422-3902-9 , pp. 188-189 .

[:2-4] Frida Dahmani: Tunisie: Souad Abderrahim, le pasionaria d'Ennahdha se dévoile. In: Jeune Afrique. November 10, 2011, accessed July 5, 2018 (French).

[:1-5] Diana Hodali: Tunisia's Ennahda party seeks modern image. In: Deutsche Welle. September 30, 2011, accessed July 5, 2018 .

[6] Zainab Touati, Sami Zlitni: Social networks and womens rights activism in postrevolutionary Tunisia . In: Muhamad Olimat (Ed.): Arab Spring and Arab Women (= Routledge international handbooks ). Routledge, 2013, ISBN 978-1-317-93738-8 , pp. 173 .

[7] Islamist-backed candidate becomes first woman mayor of Tunis. In: france24.com. July 3, 2018, accessed July 5, 2018 .

[8] Reiner Wandler: Feminist Islamist candidate. In: taz.de. June 21, 2018, accessed July 6, 2018 .