Khadija Arfaoui is a Tunisian former academic. She worked as an English teacher, a vice-principal and principal before teaching at the University of Tunis. She was a teaching assistant at George Washington University in 1978-1979 and 1979-1980 (where she got her M. Phil in 1992), and a Fulbright lecturer at Lake Forest College (2005). She joined civil society in the mid 1980s and has since then worked extensively to promote environmental issues and women’s claims to equality, peace and stability. She is a freelance researcher, lecturer and feminist activist and has had several articles published, particularly about women’s rights in the Middle-East and North Africa.