Ichraf Saied

Ichraf Saïed, née Ichraf Chebil (born 1973 Sfax, Tunisia) is a Tunisian magistrate judge, wife of current President Kaïs Saïed, and, therefore, the First Lady of Tunisia since October 23, 2019, following the election of her husband to the presidency of the republic. She is the ninth first lady of Tunisia and the fifth first lady of the post-Tunisian Revolution era. Biography Ichraf Saïed was born in Sfax, but her family is originally from Téboulba, a coastal town in the Tunisian Sahel region of Monastir Governorate. Her father, Mohamed Chebil, was a judge in the . She is also a descendent of Saint Ali Chebil. She studied in Sousse, first at a in Sousse and then at the lycée Tahar-Sfar. After receiving her bachelor's degree, Saïed studied law at the Faculty of Law and Political Science at the University of Sousse. She holds a degree in criminal studies from the and subsequently became an advisor to the Court of Appeals and the Court of First Instance of Tunis. She met her future husband, Kaïs Saïed, while she was a law student in Sousse and taught him constitutional law. They have declared that their marriage was a "love story", not a marriage arranged by their families. According to a social media post by Kaïs Karoui, a close friend of Kaïs Saïed, "The whole outlook of Kais Saïed is modernist and...neither his wife nor his daughter are veiled, not to mention that his wife is a magistrate." The couple have three children – Amrou, Sarah and Mouna.