 However, her mother insisted she study pharmacy to be self-sufficient, and so she enrolled the Faculty of Pharmacy in Paris in 1951.There she joined the North African Muslim Students Association (AEMNA), and helped organize a newspaper combining nationalism and syndicalism, before returning to Tunis to practice pharmacy.The editor of the nationalist newspaper "L'Action" recruited Bouzid to write a women's column, which became a full page entitled "Feminine Action'.