Zine el Abidine Ben Ali

Thiat has been compared to the Tunisian rapper Hamada Ben Amor (‘El Général’) who wrote a song credited with precipitating the overthrow of President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali...

The biggest of these is the demonstration effect: the overthrow of leaders such as Hosni Mubarak Zine el Abidine Ben Ali and Moammar el Gadaffi has reinforced the determination of Africans to oust autocratic and incompetent regimes...

Marzouki’s human-rights work brought him into frequent conflict with the Tunis government and in 1994 he was gaoled for four months after challenging Zine el Abidine Ben Ali for the presidency...

The governing coalition also includes respected former liberal opponents of ex-President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali such as the President-Designate Moncef Marzouki and the Assembly Speaker Ettakatol Secretary General Mustapha Ben Jafaar...

He faces the same criticism as Tunisia’s Zine el Abidine Ben Ali and Egypt’s Mohamed Hosni Mubarak: that they held on to power too long diverted state revenue to benefit their families and brutally suppressed opposition...

Tunisians kept their affection for constitutional principles and the rule of law throughout the corruption and autocracy that prevailed under President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali whom they threw out in January...

• El Watan (Nation): founded in 2011 by Mohamed Jegham and Ahmed Friaa both interior ministers during President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali’s regime...

For the shaky regimes in Tunis and Cairo the end of the Libyan conflict will remove a dangerous political distraction – Gadaffi had been trying to defend the ousted despots Zine el Abidine Ben Ali and Mohamed Hosni Mubarak – and help to boost their economies especially tourism revenue...

Unlike Tunisia’s ex-President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali Gadaffi cannot take the traditional route of exile to Saudi Arabia as he is widely believed once to have been behind a plot to assassinate King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al Saud...

The Mouvement du 20 Février and other critics point to the ‘Benalisation’ of business in Morocco a reference to the requirement that Tunisian ex-President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali and his family to have a stake in every substantive business project...