Safia Farhat (;

née The birth name is the name of the person given upon their birth. The term may be applied to the surname, the given name or to the entire name. Where births are required to be officially registered, the entire name entered onto a births registe ...

, Foudhaili; 1924 – 7 February 2004) was a pioneer of visual arts in Tunisia, as well as an academic and a women's rights activist. She is remembered for establishing modern tapestry in her country, as well as for her contributions in the fields of design, painting, ceramics, upholstery, and decorative arts, employing various materials such as stamps, ceramics, stained glass, and tapestry. Farhat also founded the first Arab-African

feminist Feminism is a range of socio-political movements and ideology, ideologies that aim to define and establish the political, economic, personal, and social gender equality, equality of the sexes. Feminism holds the position that modern soci ...

magazine, ''Faïza''.

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Born in

Radès Radès () is a harbour city in Ben Arous Governorate, Tunisia. Situated south-east of the capital Tunis, some consider it a Tunis suburb, and parts of the harbor installations of Tunis are located in Radès. Rades is divided into sub cities: ...

in 1924, she was educated in France and Tunisia, including at the

Tunis Institute of Fine Arts The Tunis Institute of Fine Arts () is a fine arts institute in Tunis, Tunisia. Founded in 1923, its seat was located at the ''Dribat'' Ben Abdallah near ''Tourbet el Bey'' with its former name Tunis School of Fine Arts. The Institute of Tunis con ...

. Farhat is remembered for establishing modern tapestry in Tunisia. She was a crucial part in creating collaborations between artists and artisans from the state-run craft industry during the period of Tunisian Socialism. Her role as the first female and first Tunisian director of the postcolonial School of Fine Arts in Tunis helped change the schools colonial, male-dominated culture to one that admitted and produced a generation of female artists and teachers. In 1949, she participated in the artistic movement of the École de Tunis (Tunis School), the only woman associated with the group. In 1959, she founded the magazine ''Faiza'', the first Tunisian women's magazine after the country's independence. She contributed to the reform and overhaul of teaching art, and was the first Tunisian director of the School of Fine Arts of Tunis where she taught in the late 1950s. She served as director of the Tunis Institute of Fine Arts beginning in 1966, heading its new School of Architecture. Farhat designed Tunisian postage stamps. In 1980 they issued two - that featured Chebka Lace and metalwork, and she was responsible for one of them.On the internet Chebka Lace
Lacenews.net, Retrieved 2 June 2016 Farhat was associated with Association des peintres et amateurs de'art en Tunisie (president); Zin (co-founder, decoration company; and Centre des Arts Vivants in Rades (founder; 1981) with her husband

Ammar Farhat Ammar Farhat (1911 – March 2, 1987) was a Tunisian painter. He was one of the ten members of the School of Tunis. Early life Born to a poor family in Béja, Farhat moved with them to Tunis when he was seven years old. He experienced difficult ...

, which they donated to the Tunisian state. Farhat created works of art in various art forms, including stained glass, drawings, paintings, reliefs, frescoes and especially decorative tapestries. She died in 2004.

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