Dalenda Larguèche

From 2011 to 2013 she served as director-general of the Center for Research, Studies, Documentation, and Information on Women [fr] (CREDIF). After being fired by Minister for Women's Affairs Sihem Badi and replaced with Rachida Tlili Sellaouti, she returned to the director-general role from 2016 to 2018.

Her activism extended to her work as an academic. In the early 1990s, with the support of some of her colleagues, she launched and developed the study of women's history at Manouba University. Despite some resistance, the subject was introduced to the university's Department of Letters, Arts, and Humanities.

Larguèche attended Tunis University, graduating in 1986 with a doctoral degree. She then became a professor of early modern history at Manouba University.

She joined the Tunisian Communist Party during a period when it was banned in the country, although the ban was lifted in 1981. She also became an activist with the Tunisian Association of Democratic Women and the Association of Tunisian Women for Research and Development.

Dalenda Bouzgarrou-Larguèche (Arabic: دلندة لرقش; born 1953), better known as Dalenda Larguèche, is a Tunisian historian specializing in the early modern period and women in Islamic societies. She is also a longtime political activist, particularly focused on the rights of women and other marginalized people.