Houda Mzioudet, MA
Houda Mzioudet is an academic researcher having covered the Arab uprisings and their aftermath with Al Jazeera English, the CBC, the BBC, Qantara (Deutsche Welle). She has been active since the Tunisian revolution with the black Tunisian community. She published articles, research papers, and policy briefs about the Arab Uprisings for international think-tanks such as the Brookings Institution, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, The German Council for Foreign Relations, the Arab Reform Initiative and Fundacion Alternativas. She has also co-authored a book on the Libyan Displacement Crisis (Georgetown University Press, 2016).
Mzioudet has also supervised US students in their dissertations on emerging identities and global cultures in Tunisia with the School of International Training (www.sit.edu). She was a guest speaker and participant in several seminars, conferences and events in Tunisia, Qatar, Poland, Turkey, the U.S.A., the UK, Germany, France, Lebanon, Canada, Greece and Egypt. She was a Fulbright teaching assistant of Arabic language in Christopher Newport University and a British Council Foreign Language Teaching Assistant of French language in Scottish schools in Glasgow (Scotland, UK).
She earned her MA in Cultural Studies from the University of Manouba in Tunis, Tunisia in 2005 and is currently studying for a BA in Political Science at the University of Toronto (Canada).
Mzioudet is a founding member of two Tunisian civil society organizations: ADAM (2012) and The Voice of Tunisian Black Women (2020).