Habiba Menchari

Habiba Menchari (; 1907–1961) was a Tunisian women's rights activist. Active as early as 1924, Menchari gained fame by publicly unveiling herself during a speech against the wearing of the hijab. The speeches by Menchari, as well as compatriot Manoubia Ouertani, made at a debate called “The Muslim Woman of Tomorrow: For or Against the Veil”, are "cited as the first examples of Muslim women entering a debate dominated by men."

Menchari was a court clerk who was married to lawyer and wealthy landowner Abderrahman Menchari. She was a granddaughter of the last sultan of Touggourt. Her husband served in World War I and later advocated for pensions for Tunisian veterans.

A member of the socialist party in Tunisia, Menchari had previously led a campaign against the wearing of the veil. She was following the lead of Ouertani, who in 1924 became the first Tunisian woman to remove her hijab in public, and Egyptian Huda Sha'arawi who did so in a Cairo train station in 1923.

Menchari and other Tunisian feminists activity was opposed by otherwise ideologically aligned critics such as future first president of Tunisia Habib Bourguiba.