Education
From 1979 to 1983 Maya Jribi studied biology at the University of Sfax.
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From 2006 to 2012, she was the leader of the Progressive Democratic Party (PDP). Since the PDP merged into the Republican Party in April 2012, she has been the Secretary-General of this centrist party. She wrote for the independent weekly Erraï and later for the PDP-newspaper First Rate (at Lloyd's) Mawkif.
On 25 December 2006, Jribi was appointed Secretary-General of the PDP. From 1 to 20 October 2007, Jribi, together with Najib Chebbi, engaged in a hunger strike to protest against the forced move of the party"s headquarters from Tunis, which caused serious health implications for her.
Jribi headed the PDP’s electoral list in Ben Arous for the Constituent Assembly Elections in October, 2011. The PDP list received one 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 is 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.
Politics
Together with Ahmed Najib Chebbi, Maya Jribi was a co-founder of the Progressive Socialist Rally, established in 1983, which was later renamed into Progressive Democratic Party (PDP). She has been the first woman to lead a political party in Tunisia.
Membership
During that time, she became an active member of the student union UGET and the Tunisian League of Human Rights. Since 1986 she has been a member of the party"s executive.
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Progressive Democratic Party