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Tawhida Ben Cheikh

توحيدة بن الشيخ

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Tunis

Tunisian physician (1909–2010), the first Tunisian girl to take the baccalauréat, in 1928, and the first woman physician of Tunisia and the Maghreb. She graduated from the Paris faculty of medicine in 1936 and opened a practice in Tunis, headed the maternity services of the Charles-Nicolle and Aziza Othmana hospitals, founded the family-planning service in 1963 and directed the national family and population office in 1970; she was active in the Muslim Union of Tunisian Women and founded societies for social aid, orphans and mothers. In 2020 the Central Bank of Tunisia put her portrait on the ten-dinar banknote.

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Physician
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Maghreb
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The Colonial Era · The Contemporary Era · The Modern Era Contemporaries: Ali Safi Golpaygani · Aden Adde · Roger Garaudy · Muazzez İlmiye Çığ · Abdul Latif Chowdhury Fultali

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Tunis

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    People and things also explored

    al-Zaytuna Mosque· Khayr al-Din takes Tunis (1534)· Charles V's conquest of Tunis (1535)· Louis IX's siege of Tunis (the Eighth Crusade)· Abu Zakariya al-Hafsi's break with the Almohads· The 'alama affair: Ibn al-Abbar dismissed, confined, then pardoned at Tunis, ~645/1247· Ibn al-Abbar finishes al-Takmila li-Kitab al-Sila at Tunis, ~650/1252· Ibn al-Abbar's embassy to the sultan of Ifriqiya for beleaguered Valencia, 635/1238

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    • Tawhida Ben Cheikh — French Wikipedia
    • Tawhida Ben Cheikh — English Wikipedia
    • Tawhida Ben Cheikh — Arabic Wikipedia
    • Tawhida Ben Cheikh — Wikidata
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    islam.museum contributors. “Tawhida Ben Cheikh”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/tawhida-ben-cheikh/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-01.

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