About Sihem Bensedrine
Sihem Bensedrine (Arabic: سهام بن سدرين; born 28 October 1950) is a Tunisian journalist and human rights activist. In 2005, she was honored with the Oxfam Novib/PEN Award. == Education and literary work == Bensedrine was born in La Marsa next to Tunis and studied at the University of Toulouse in Toulouse, France southeast of Bordeaux. She earned a degree in philosophy. In 1980, she became a reporter for the independent journal Le Phare. When the journal stopped publication, she became a political chief at Maghreb, and then at Réalités. When Maghreb ceased publication because of the food riots in 1983, she became the editor-in-chief of Gazette Touristique and founded l'Hebdo Touristique. At the same time, she was overseeing the opposition newspaper El Mawkif. She founded the publishing house Arcs in 1988 but it went bankrupt in 1992 because of the human rights crisis. In 1998, she became the literary chief for the publishing house Noir sur Blanc.
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