Najma Kousri

In 2019, Kousri became one of the co-founders of the Tunisian #MeToo movement. Called #EnaZeda (Arabic: أنا زادة ‎) in Tunisia, Kousri said that it "is simply the culmination of a struggle that has been going on for years". As of November 2019, the movement's Facebook group had over 21,600 members; it is a place where protest is organised and also provides a safe space for testimony from survivors. Kousri described the success of the movement as owing a debt to the way that women in Egypt had spoken out for their own civil rights. She also credits the power of #EnaZeda in gathering momentum quickly - previous campaigns about harassment on public transport by feminist organisations did not capture the imagination of women in Tunisia in the same way. Kousri has discussed how she observed that after the uprisings of December 2010, sexual violence against women increased and became more violent. The movement reveals the scale of the problem and shows that silencing victims does not solve problems of sexual aggression in societies.

In 2017, she spoke out on behalf of the organisation against the law that bans marriage between Muslim women and non-Muslims in Tunisia. In 2019, she led a campaign encouraging the state to re-engage with women's reproductive health as a concern - with cuts in funding, women's access to contraception had declined.

Kousri was one of the speakers at the WorldPrideSummit in 2017 in Madrid. She led a discussion about LGBTQIA+ in Africa with Kasha Nabagesera from Uganda, South African Yahia Zaidi, Alimi Bisi Ademola from Nigeria and Michèle Ndoki from Cameroon.

In 2017, Kousri was fired by the fundraising department of SOS Children's Villages, as a direct result of her activism. The reason given for the dismissal was that Kousri's work on countering discrimination to LGBT communities could also "be damaging" to children.

In 2015 Kousri posted a series of images of same-sex couples on social media, which went viral. The project "Sexuality Is Not Taboo" was aimed at making visible LGBT communities from Tunisia. She said of the project:

In 2014 she spoke out against the increase in violence against LGBT communities in Egypt. She condemned the actions of journalist Mona Iraqi, who published the identities of 26 men arrested at a Cairo hammam on charges of "indecency".

Najma Kousri (Arabic: نجمة العبيدي القوصري ‎, also known as Najma Kousri Labidi, born 1991) is a Tunisian feminist and LGBT-rights activist. Kousri is a co-founder of the #EnaZeda (Tunisian #MeToo) movement and a co-ordinator of the Tunisian Association of Democratic Women. She is a campaigner for LGBT rights and her photographic project documenting the lives of same-sex couples went viral in 2017.