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Fatma Moalla is a Tunisian woman who was born on January 14th in 1939. She excelled in school and became a well known mathematician. The International Fatma Moalla Award for the Popularisation of Mathematics is now given in her honor.

Biography
Fatma Moalla was born in Tunis, Tunisia in 1939. Her father's name was Mohamed Moalla and he worked selling books. She attended secondary school at Lycée de la Rue du Pacha. In 1956, Moalla switched schools and began attending Lycée Carnot of Tunis where she chose to specialize in mathematics. Moalla then attended university at "Institut des Hautes Études de Tunis...[and] She graduated with her mathematics degree in June 1960." Moalla went to Paris to earn her Agrégation in 1961 even though France and Tunisia were in conflict at the time.

Contributions
Moalla has published papers on Finsler Spaces and geometry and worked as an assistant at Faculté des Sciences Mathématique, Physiques et Naturelles.

Awards and Achievements
The International Fatma Moalla Award for the Popularisation of Mathematics is now given each year in honor of Fatma Moalla.