# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tewhida-belshikh
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:27:00.101Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tewhida-belshikh"
name: "Tewhida Belshikh"
slug: "tewhida-belshikh"
description: "Tewhida Ben Sheikh was the first modern Tunisian and North African woman to become a physician. She was also a pioneer in women's medicine, in particular contraception and abortion access."
tagline: "Tunisian physician (1909-2010)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tawhida_Ben_Cheikh%2C_1936.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1909-01-02"
deathDate: "2010-12-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: 250
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump