Salima Ghezali (Arabic: سليمة غزالي, romanized: Salīmah Ghazzālī; born 1958) is an Algerian journalist and writer.[1]
Salima Ghezali | |
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سليمة غزالي | |
 Ghezali in 2013 | |
| Born | 1958 (age 65–66) |
| Nationality | Algerian |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Known for | Women's rights |
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A founding member of Women in Europe and the Maghreb, president of the association for the advancement of women, editor of the women's magazine NYSSA, which she founded, and editor of the French-language weekly La Nation, Salima Ghezali is an activist of women's rights and human rights and democracy in Algeria.
In 1997 Ghezali won the Sakharov Prize[2] as well as the Olof Palme Prize.