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Early Life and Feminism
Notable among Ghanmi's earlier feminist initiatives includes her co-founding of a women's club in 1979 at the Tahar al-Haddad Cultural Center in Tunis, named "Club d’Etude de la Condition de la Femme at the Club Tahar Haddad" (The Tahar Haddad Club for the Study of Women’s Condition). Ghanmi and other members of the club sought to create a democratic space for Tunisian women to engage with anti-imperialist and feminist thinking while also building solidarity with other civic causes, such as Palestinian and Maghrebi women's advocacy. Within the club, Ghanmi was a part of the focus group dedicated to discourse regarding "Women and the Family," including issues of sexuality. She stopped attending club meetings at the Cultural Center by 1982 amid waves of internal conflicts among over its methodology.

In the wake of events of mass unrest in the early 1980s such as the Sabra and Shatila Massacre and Israel's invasion of Lebanon, Ghanmi became involved with an early iteration of the Association tunisienne des femmes démocrates.

In addition to her feminist activism, Ghanmi is trained in medicine.