Malek Lakhal is a Tunisian researcher and writer. Her research focuses on citizenship, social movements, civil society organisations, and feminism. Prior to working at the Arab Reform Initiative, she was a journalist at Nawaat and a research assistant at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Malek is also a novelist, her novel “Valse des Silences” is published by JC Lattès. She holds a master’s degree in political theory from Sciences Po Paris.