This is the English text of a statement previously published in Arabic by Al-Akbar and in French by Contretemps.
When one day the people wills to live
Fate itself must answer that call
The night must surely fade away
The chains must surely break and fall
—Abu el-Kacem Chebbi
We, intellectuals, academics, artists, and activists from the Arab world and the diaspora speak out.
We speak out today, as the blood of our people flows freely under Israeli and Western bombs, as another war is being waged against them, more silent but just as deadly: the war of normalization with Israel, the enemy State, that is poisoning our region, decreed by corrupt leaders against the will of their people, against their memory, against their spilled blood. From the Abraham Accords to the framework agreement signed between Lebanon and Israel in Washington on June 26, 2026: betrayal is now a serial act. We denounce it in the strongest possible terms.
To be crystal clear: the agreement is not a peace treaty between equals, but the formalization of a relationship of submission that shows utter contempt for the sacrifices made by Lebanese people in the fight for their land and their dignity. While officials were exchanging handshakes and hugs before American cameras, the Israeli army was still striking Lebanese territory on the very day of the signing. This alone speaks volumes about the true nature of the signed text: a capitulation cloaked in the language of sovereignty. Israeli leaders state it bluntly: their project extends beyond Hezbollah and Lebanon’s southern border. What is at stake is an older project and obsession: a Greater Israel, spilling over the 1948 borders into Lebanon, Jordan, and Syria. A Greater Israel realizing Jabotinsky’s dream of making the Zionist project a regional power that threatens its neighbors, seizes their resources, and redraws their borders at will. And at every stage, the same word recurs to disguise this expansion: self-defense. As if conquest is synonymous with self-defense.
The succession of wars that have struck the region—Palestine, Lebanon, Iraq, Sudan, Libya, Syria, and so on—is not a series of independent crises. These wars are a part of this long colonial history. From the Berlin congress (1878) to the Sykes-Picot agreement (1916) and the Balfour Declaration (1917), to the hijacking of the Arab Spring revolutions of 2011, the same imperialist logic is at work: surrendering our lands and our rights to the voracious appetites of Western powers. Today, the goal is still to fragment in order to dominate. Today, our annihilation is still at stake. Normalization is not peace; it is deciding to crush us.
In this project of annihilation, Israel plays a leading strategic role. It lies at the heart of an imperialism forged in the long 19th century that is undergoing a transformation with the complicity of some of our states. The Abraham Accords, which normalized relations between five Arab countries and Israel, are part of this new imperial moment that, under the guise of economic integration, seeks at all costs to safeguard US hegemonic advantage in the region.
This is also the aim of the IMEC project—India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor—announced at the G20 in New Delhi in September 2023: to consolidate the normalization of relations between Israel and the Gulf states and to offer an alternative to the Chinese Silk Road. Israel is therefore the indispensable geographical hub of the corridor: normalization is not an end in itself, but the infrastructural condition for US hegemony in the region. Genocide or normalization, two paths toward the same objective: to make the Arab region a free market for goods and identities.
Faced with this reality, only one conclusion is possible: the nation-states of the region share not only a language, a culture, and a history, but above all, a shared destiny structured by the same mechanisms of subjugation and the same aspirations for national liberation. The Tunisian slogan “Free Tunisia and its capital Jerusalem,” or the Egyptian and Moroccan demonstrators chanting “Palestine is a national cause,” clearly show this: the Palestinian condition is the condition of all the peoples of the region, to varying degrees.
We, the signatories of this text, aware of the existential threat posed by the imperialist project of Greater Israel to the entire Arab region, refuse to allow the exhaustion of our peoples, brought about by two centuries of perpetual war, blockade, and destruction, to be presented as a free choice by treacherous Arab regimes serving their Western masters. We refuse to allow a balance of power based on genocide and the crushing of all resistance to be celebrated as peace.
We, signatories of this text, heirs to a long history of Arab peoples’ resistance against colonialism and Zionism, affirm, in this manifesto:
First: the rejection of sham peace and of any form of normalization with Israel, the enemy State
The Oslo Accords taught us this lesson: a peace negotiated under military and economic duress, where one party imposes on the other the timetable, conditions, and guarantees of its own security, is not peace. It is a surrender dressed in diplomatic language; it is, in practice, a guarantee of greater fragmentation and consolidated Israeli colonization. We denounce the complicity of a segment of the Arab political, economic, and intellectual elites with the regime of subjugation imposed by Western imperialism, in contempt of the sacrifices of the region’s peoples. We address ourselves in particular to the Arab leaders who, under the guise of realpolitik, have chosen the path of subjugation rather than that of dignity. We demand the termination of all normalization agreements. We reiterate that the popular legitimacy of any power in our region is also measured by its ability to avoid betraying, through diplomatic compromise, the principles it proclaims. From the anti-colonial struggles to the Arab Spring, the same lesson has been inscribed in the region’s DNA: no collaborationist regime can survive by disregarding its people’s aspirations for emancipation.
Second: the denunciation of the ‘Greater Israel’ project
We take note of the official Israeli statements that openly announce the predatory and expansionist ambition of the Israeli colonial project. When an Israeli minister declares that the Litani River will become the new border with Lebanon, when another advocates settlement plans for South Lebanon, these are not mere slips of the tongue: they are the proclamation of a doctrine. We condemn these expansionist ambitions in the strongest possible terms and reiterate that no agreement can be viable until this genocidal war machine is explicitly and permanently arrested and abandoned. No agreement can be reached without liberating all occupied land and affirming the right of return for all Palestinian refugees from 1948 and 1967.
Third: the affirmation of the right of Arab peoples to self-determination as an inalienable principle
We reiterate here the importance of respecting this right, enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations and international law, that recognizes the legitimacy of armed struggle in the context of colonial domination and foreign occupation. This right is intrinsically linked to the dignity of colonized peoples fighting for their survival. No geopolitical compromise can undermine it. No balance of power—however unfavorable to us, today as in the past—can diminish it. We reaffirm here this right for the Palestinian people, for the Lebanese people, and for all Arab peoples facing the same choice between genocide and dignity. We salute the courage of those who have honorably chosen to resist and directly confront the Israeli-Western war-machine. We call for the release of all Palestinian and Lebanese political prisoners, together with all persons detained in Arab countries for expressions of solidarity with the Palestinian cause.
Fourth: the rejection of purely symbolic international solidarity
International solidarity today has largely retreated, particularly at a government level, to forms that cost nothing and commit to nothing: diplomatic condemnations without follow-up, humanitarian aid that alleviates suffering without ever addressing its structural causes, awareness campaigns that inform without transforming. These gestures are not entirely useless, but they allow states and public opinion to assuage their consciences without ever challenging the imperialist order that produces oppression. Supporting an occupied people only in ways that bother no one is to support their suffering, not their liberation. This means accepting that the oppressed wait, patiently, and negotiate endlessly with their oppressors, while the world watches with sympathy, never willing to pay the political price of genuine support for their emancipation by whatever means it deems necessary.
Fifth: the responsibility of the Arab intellectual
We endorse the demand made by Ghassan Kanafani and Bassel Al-Araj: intellectuals from colonized or dominated societies cannot take refuge in a facade of neutrality that in practice always serves the interests of the stronger party. Our role is not to translate the revolt of our peoples into a language acceptable to the oppressors. It is not to polish, to soften, to make presentable what must remain an insurrection. Our role is to champion it, to defend it, with all the tools at our disposal, and first and foremost by rejecting any normalization, whether intellectual, cultural, or political. We denounce the ongoing imperialist war that plagues this region. We wholeheartedly support all forms of resistance that oppose it. What we want is not an armistice disguised as peace, a pacification that silently dispossesses us. What we want is total liberation and full sovereignty: over our lands, our resources, our modes of production. Nothing less.
We sign this manifesto as Arab intellectuals and activists, aware that silence, at a time when the fate of an entire region is being decided, is itself a form of abdication. We choose not to remain silent. We call for an end, once and for all, to the disgraceful negotiations and shameful compromises that legitimize the unacceptable, and for a clear identification of the central threat: the expansionist project of Greater Israel that constitutes the strategic core of Western imperialism. We adopt the stance of radical refusal demonstrated by the various forms of resistance in the Arab world, the only way to guarantee the individual and collective dignity of the region’s peoples at “zero distance” from the machineries of destruction, at the very point where erasure is most intense.
Algeria was victorious, Palestine will be victorious and free!
- Hèla Yousfi, academic, Tunisia
- Layal Ftouni, academic, Lebanon
- Noureddine Amara, academic, Algeria
- Omar Abdel Jawad, academic, Palestine
- Mounira Khayat, academic, Lebanon
- Ghassan Ben Khelifa, journalist, Tunisia
- Hadeel Karkar, researcher, Palestine
- Pierre Abi Saab, journalist, Lebanon
- Ubada Kassar, university professor and researcher, Lebanon
- Malek Abi Saab, professor of contemporary Middle Eastern history at McGill University, Canada/Lebanon
- Faiq Mari, academic, Palestine
- Bahia Shehab, artist/academic, Lebanon/Egypt
- Latifa El Bouhsini, academic, Morocco
- Naima Chalour, academic, Algeria
- Ali Batha, researcher, Palestine
- Sara El Masry, academic, Egypt
- Ali Mattar, researcher and academic, Lebanon
- Meryem Sellami, academic, Tunisia
- Hala Amri, researcher, Tunisia
- Nada Raad, academic, Lebanon
- Malika El Assimi, academic, poet and writer, Morocco
- Lubna Tarabey, academic, Lebanon
- Yasmine Khayat, academic, Lebanon
- Roula Khayat, academic, Lebanon
- Islam El Khatib, researcher, Lebanon
- Ali Aboud, academic, Lebanon
- Muna Dajani, academic, Palestine
- Julia Choukair Vezoso, researcher and organizer, Lebanon
- Hamdeen Sabahi, politician, Egypt
- Khaled Youssef, filmmaker, Egypt
- Faida Hindawi, film critic, Egypt
- Mariam Guellouz, academic, Tunisia
- Iyad Abou Gaida, artist, Lebanon
- Samar Kanafani, researcher, Lebanon
- Sami Boukadida, researcher, Lebanon
- Jad Melki, academic, Lebanon
- Rana Sukkarieh, academic, Lebanon
- Alaa Attia Mitwaly, researcher, Egypt
- Chawki Attieh, researcher and professor, Lebanon
- Laure Abi Khalil, academic, Lebanon
- Kassem Kassir, academic, Lebanon
- Majdolin Darwish, member of the BDS campaign, Lebanon
- Tania Naplasi, visual artist, Palestine
- Raja Jaafar, political activist, member of the boycott campaign, Lebanon
- Hamza Hamouchene, researcher and activist, Algeria
- Rami Salame, academic, member of the boycott campaign, Lebanon
- Bashar Ahmad Al-Laqis, PhD in political sociology, Lebanon
- El-Mouzafar El-Diguel, politician, Sudan
- Moussa El-Sadah, researcher, Gulf
- Mourad Ayyash, Palestinian activist, Baddawi camp, northern Lebanon
- Layla Ghanem, editor-in-chief of Badael magazine and international activist
- Riyad Melhem, journalist and political activist, Lebanon
- Farah Abi Morched, Noun Feminist Solidarity Group, Lebanon
- Sonya Ben Yahmed, Researcher, Tunisia
- Mazen Elghoul, academic, Lebanon
- Houssem Matar, academic, Lebanon
- Fidaa Abdel Fattah, Lawyer, Lebanon
- Shadi Abou Ayed, Palestinian activist, Baddawi camp, Lebanon
- Hisham Othman El-Shawani, activist and intellectual, Sudan
- Aza Boughandoura, academic, Libya
- Moutaa Amin El-Waer, university professor residing in Canada, Tunisia
- Muhannad Delikan, member of the leadership of the Popular Will Party, Syria
- Chahrazad Abdallah, academic, Tunisia
- Ahmad Adnan El-Ramahi, director and secretary of the Anti-Zionism Association, Jordan
- Houssem Matar, Academic, Lebanon
- Mariam El-Obeidi, artist, Tunisia
- El-Ghalia Djimi, human rights defender, Western Sahara
- Mohamed Amir, Arab nationalist activist, Egypt
- Mohamed Mawwas, Arab nationalist activist, Lebanon
- Ubada Osama, academic, Sudan
- Mahmoud El-Maaytah, Jordan
- Ayoub Habraoui, media activist, Morocco
- Rabhi Halloum, Jordan
- Khaled El-Basiouny, film production manager, Egyp
- Azyz Krichen, Writer, Tunisia
- Samah El-Gemari Osman, Sudan
- Khaldoun El-Barghouti, Jordan
- Malek Khoury, academic residing in Cairo
- Alaa El-Mawla, politician, Lebanon
- Sami Massoud, academic residing in Canada
- Hadi Eid, academic residing in Canada
- Assaad El-Attat, academic residing in Canada
- Yahya El-Lahib, academic residing in Canada
- Norma Rantisi, academic residing in Canada
- Rola Jurdi, academic residing in Canada
- Rabab Abdulhadi, Palestinian academic residing in the United States
- Jamil Khader, academic residing in the United States
- Jaber Suleiman, Palestinian researcher residing in Lebanon
- Mohamed Sawwan, academic residing in China
- Nawfal Nayouf, writer and translator, former academic, residing in Canada
- Zaid Hamad, Jordan
- Issa El-Khatib, Jordan
- Mountasser Wosos, Jordan
- Iyad Ben Mabrouk, journalist and political activist, Tunisia
- Amin Amr, Youth Office of the Karama Party, Egypt
- Ziad El-Basiouny, Youth Secretary of the Karama Party, Egypt
- Sama Muawiya, researcher, Egypt
- Tamer Hindawi, journalist, Egypt
- Sayed El-Toukhy, editor-in-chief of Al-Karama newspaper, Egypt
- Mohamed El-Basiouny, physician, Egypt
- Mahmoud Fahmy, journalist and writer, Egypt
- Ali Kniss, researcher, Tunisia
- Mohamed Melhem, Jordan
- Wafaa Ashry, Nubian, feminist and labor rights advocate, Egypt
- Mohamed Bajes El-Hassasneh, political activist, Jordan
- Omar Nashabe, academic and international law specialist, Lebanon
- Walid Ezroukan, lawyer, Algeria
- Ihab Nasser, Dean of the Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences, Al-Azhar University, Gaza
- Yazid Ben Hounet, academic, Algeria/France
- Anissa Haddadi, academic, Algeria
- Mohamed Abdoun, writer, Algeria
- Bouakrif Ali Amin, translator and professor, Algeria
- Daho Djerbal, academic, Algeria
- Said Bouibel, academic, Lebanon
- Elia El-Khazen, researcher, Lebanon
- Mohamed Maahoub, academic, Morocco
- Youssef El-Tamimi, academic, Austria
- Safaa Chebbi, activist, Tunisia
- Khelill Khalsi, researcher, Tunisia
- Sahar Hammoud, academic, Lebanon
- Ali Al-Batran, political activist, Jordan
- Ghazi Anaim, critic and visual artist, former president of the Jordanian Association of Visual Artists
- Abdel Moneim Al-Hurr
- Kahena Sanaa, artist and researcher, Tunisia
- Moncef Taleb, filmmaker, Tunisia
- Reem Mokhtari, university professor, Algeria
- Marwan Majaes, Lebanon, France
- Joëlle Abou Chabké, director, Lebanon
- Maissam Al-Marrouki, journalist, Tunisia
- Regina Sanfir, writer and researcher, Lebanon
- Nabila Kallache, designer, Algeria
- Rabih Sultan, professor and academic researcher, Lebanon
- Louay Zeytouni, professor, Lebanon
- Ahmad Lotfi Shaheen, legal and development consultant, Palestine
- Wissam Nassif Yassine, writer and political researcher, Lebanon
- Kholoud Shehada
- Nizam Assaf, academic, Jordan
- Ali Hekmat Shouaib, academic, Lebanon
- Rania Majdoub, teacher
- Kassem Cheatani, academic, Canada
- Zahra Mohamed Banaho, human rights defender/Southern Morocco
- Omar Nashabeh, academic and international law specialist, Lebanon
- Amin Tarbiyeh, Lebanese resident of the United States
- Allan Alam Eddine, writer, Bilad al-Sham
- Omar Farhat, academic, Egypt
- Omar Jabary Salamanca, academic, Palestine
- Slim Ala Eddine, filmmaker, Tunisia
- Aziz Barkaoui, Tunisia
- Salma Mesieri, Tunisia
- Donia Ben Osman, lawyer, Tunisia
- Fayrouz Salama, academic researcher, Tunisia
- Hatem El Wali, professor, Southern Morocco
- Nouress Bleili, academic researcher, Tunisia
- Ahmed Sabri Sayed Ali, historical researcher, Egypt
- Amir Mohieddine, researcher, anthropologist, France/Algeria
- Hossam Abdelkhalek, arts director, Lebanon
- Hicham Ajbouni, Tunisian political activist
- Emir Mohieddine, researcher, France/Algeria
- Anis Mansouri, internationalist Tunisian activist, Tunisia
- Jihad Hamdan, academic and member of the Political Bureau of the Jordanian Communist Party, Jordan
- Houda Ibrahim, journalist, Lebanon
- Adriana Kobeissi, academic residing in Austria
- Fadel, journalist and sociologist, France
- Iqbal Zlila, academic, Tunisia
- Sofian El Fani, cinematographer, Tunisia
- Jalal Kaouch, Palestinian academic
- Leila Abi Samra
- Mohamed El Ghafiri, General Coordinator of the International Network for People’s Solidarity
- Imed Abdelli, Swiss lawyer
- Azzam Al-Samadi, Jordan
- Haifa Saleh, Palestinian academic residing in Belgium – Jordan
- Violette Daguer, writer and human rights activist
- Leila Naffaa, Arab Women’s Association, Jordan
- Moncef Guedouar, Tunisian immigrant
- Nour Turkmani, poet, Jordan
- Mauritanian Association for Human Rights (AMDH), Nouakchott, Mauritania
- Mahmoud Hodhod, writer and academic, Egypt
- Amer Abdallah Abou Nidal/Palestine/General Coordinator of the Global Network for the Palestinian Cause
- Suzanne El Kenz
- Shahd Abusalama, scholar and artist, Palestinian British
- Engineer Jawad Jaber, President of the Anbat Democratic Forum, Jordan
- Thouraya Hammami, researcher, Tunisia
- Sofiane Kachroudi, researcher, Tunisia
- Faouzia Ben Salem, human rights activist, Tunisia
- Saad Mohamed Abdallah, single, Sudan
- Ines Tlili, human rights and cultural activist, Tunisia
- Nasser Al-Ghazali, Director of the Damascus Center for Theoretical Studies and Civil Rights, Sweden
- Saber Zammouri, director, Tunisia
- Abdelmounaim El Hour
- Hanaa Abbas, lawyer, Tunisia
- Hela Yousfi, Qatar
- Ibrahim Moussayih, Sahrawi Human Rights Defenders Collective (CODESA), Western Sahara
- Galai Ahmed, Defender of human and peoples’ rights
- Selma Zghidi, cinema editor, Tunisia
- Nasser Soumi, contemporary artist, Franco-Palestinian
- Khalil Triki, cultural worker, Tunisia
- Amal Jerbi, Citizen, Canada
- Radhia Ouezini, human rights activist, Tunisia
- Rayan Ayari, academic researcher, Tunisia
- Salah Salah, Palestine
- Guizani Souhail, Italy
- Babouzeid Labbihi, political and human rights activist, Western Sahara
- Salma Ghazal, professor, Netherlands
- Youssef Chaker, visual artist, Tunisia
- Akesbi Azeddine, Morocco, economist
- Abdennour Akoudad Ekajouan, PhD Candidate in Economics (Spain)
- Ahmed Jaradat, writer, Jordan
- Mahmoud AlAli, coordinator, Center for Refugee Rights, Aidoun, Lebanon
- Rania Abid, Doctor, Tunisia
- Jemil Ben Romdhane, Engineer, Tunisia
- Myriam Bribri, Tunisian citizen
- Reem Abdelwahed, Tunisia
- Rafika Mensteri, citizen, Tunisia
- Fatma Dahmani, university professor, Tunisia
- Omar Berrada, poet and researcher, Morocco
- Ali Yehia, journalist and international relations consultant, Lebanon
- Fatma Erraach, academic, Tunisia
- Noha Alzaneen, Researcher, Palestine
- Nafieh Assaf, professor, Palestine
- Noha Al-Zaanin, Palestinian researcher residing in Egypt
- Mohamed Mathee, Senior Lecturer, South Africa
- Samir Moghbel, Iran
- Terras Karim, Tunisia
- Maya Saikali, France
- Sevgi Dogan, postdoc, Italy
- Bahija Ouezini, human rights activist, Tunisia
- Naila Al Wardi, Tunisia
- Othman Ben Youssef, Tunisia
- Leila El Phil, Tunisia
- Mohamed El Bourji, human rights activist and physician, Egyptian residing in France
- Ali Mallah, Canada
- Mohamed Soltani, media activist, from Tunisia
- Baya Moudhafer, film director and film programmer, Tunisia
- Ahmed Jemaa, researcher, Tunisia
- Thawra El Abidi, student — Tunisia
- Abdel-Raouf Ismaïl, Plastic Surgeon, Canada
- Fatma Tounsi, Tunisia
- Nacira Guénif, sociologist, anthropologist, university professor, Université Paris 8, France
- Jocelyne Dakhlia, researcher, France
- Nidal Safi, political activist, Lebanon
- Hakima Chaoui, writer and poet from Morocco
- Hani Maatar, musician and researcher from Tunisia
- Emilio Dabed, Law professor, Canada
- Bilel Jdid, Tunisia
- Rimel Mehleb, PhD candidate, Canada
- Rami Shaath (Palestinian/Egyptian), deported to France
- Sami Degachi
- Nazih El Tarcha
- Inès Zoghdoudi, Tunisia
- Roula Yehia, journalist and researcher, France/Lebanon
- Aicha Bendouba, Algeria/France
- Dany El Amine, journalist, Lebanon
- Nadhir Mohamed, Tunisia, researcher in political science
- Zohra Mathlouthi, Tunisia
- Elmaaloum Isselmou
- Sihem Benabderrahmane, academic, Algeria
- Fidaa El Jouneidi, Palestine Film Festival Barbès, France
- Atfa Memaï, Algeria
- Youssef Ettourjoumen
- Hussein El Rahal, university professor
- Hella Ben Youssef, Vice President of Socialist International Women network
- Ghassan Amami, filmmaker, Tunisia
- Habib Belhadi, producer, Tunisia
- Bahri El Bahri, Tunisia
- Abdenasser Djebbar, university professor, Algeria
- Mohamed Al-Abdallah, Palestinian writer
- Mohamed Amine Khedhiri, researcher, Tunisia
- Hisham Abdel Hay, Palestinian, Damascus
- Siman Khoury
- Salvadoran-Palestinian Association — El Salvador
- Omar Faris, political activist and chairman of the Polish-Palestinian Association, Poland
- Kawthar Jouabri, academic, Tunisia
- Mariam Ben Salem, academic, Tunisia
- Riadh Ferjani, academic, Tunisia
- Tawfiq Abu Arshid, political and union activist, Jordan
- Tawfiq Abu Arshid, political and union activist, Jordan (duplicate entry)
- Omar Alfazza, Lawyer, Jordan
- Musa Saleh, Jordan
- Abd Al-Rahman Salem, academic, Jordan
- Ahmad Darraj, Palestine
- Ziad Bakri
- Azza Chaabouni, academic and researcher, Tunisian
- Jounaïdi Abdeljaoued, politician, Tunisia
- Dalila Mahfoudh, feminist political activist, Tunisia
- Nouri Abid, publisher
- Hamma Hammami, politician, Tunisia
- Sara Salloum, Socio-Economic Rights Action Group
- Jihen Laouati, journalist, Tunisia
- Jilani El Hammami – Workers’ Party – Tunisia
- Rafika Errafik – Women’s Organization of the Workers’ Party Musawat (Equality), Tunisia
- Taoufi Ben Brik,, journaliste et écrivain, Tunisie
- Belalloufi Hocine, Retired Journalist, Algeria
- Khamis El Bahri, Artist, Tunisia
- Montasser Salem, Youth Activist, Tunisia
- Louati Mohamed Ismail, Filmmaker, Tunis
- Yamina Merchri Bendana
- Aimen Remida, Researcher, Tunisia
- Hayet Benabderrahmane, Architecte, Algérie
- Mahmoud Hamza, Human rights activist, Egypt
- Sana M’sellami, Enseignante-chercheure, Tunisie
- Oussama Ouiremi, academic, France
- Hanin Tarabey, academic and researcher, Palestine
- Al-Aybiki Suhieda, Jordan
- Tarek Kahlaoui, academic, Tunisia
- Fatma Ben Osman, artiste peintre, Tunisia
- Marwa Bejaoui, militante syndicale-unionist
- Malek Zeghdoudi, Freedoms Committee, National Union of Tunisian Journalists
- Abdelatif Zeroual, academic, Maroc
- Halima Jouini, Militant, Feminist, Tunisia