Rachida Boubaker-Triki is a professor of Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art at Tunis University, President of Tunisian Aesthetic Association ATEP, Vice president of the International Society of Poetics, founding member of the Mediterranean Aesthetics Society (Athens since 2002) and member of International Aesthetic Assosciation (IAA). She was a member of the International Cultural Festival of Sfax (Tunisia 1992-1996) and a member of the Scientific Committee of Arts Festival of Mahares (Tunisia 1998-2002). She has organized several contemporary art exhibitions in Tunisia and is currently a curator for the Maghreb Exhibition at the Bamako Museum. She has published six book, most recently Les femmes peintres en Tunisie (Women Painters in Tunisia) (2001) and has worked on over twenty-five documentary films on Tunisian painters.