Maya Jribi [SEP] educated at
at the University of Sfax, from 1979 to 1983. During that period, she became involved and an active member of the student union, known as UGET, and the Tunisian League of Human Rights. She wrote for the independent weekly Erraï and later for the PDP-newspaper Al Mawkif.
Together with Ahmed Najib Chebbi, Maya Jribi co-founded the "Progressive Socialist Rally", established in 1983, which was later renamed into Progressive Democratic Party (PDP). Since 1986 she has been a member of the
seat in Ben Arous according to preliminary election results. On 9 April 2012, the PDP merged with other secularist parties to form the Republican Party and Maya Jribi became the leader of this party.
Maya Jribi was an outspoken feminist. She has labeled Israel as a "Zionist construct", and proposed to disallow Israeli pilgrims to visit the El Ghriba synagogue on Djerba island.
Maya Jribi, announced her retirement, during the Republican Party convention in 2017.
On 19th May 2018 she died of cancer.
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