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Tunisia

Zine el Abidine Ben Ali

Date of Birth: 3 September 1936


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Bourguiba's ghost

President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali was never entirely happy running the country in the shadow of its founding father Habib Bourguiba...


Post-poll rumblings

The arrest of dozens of school and college students during demonstrations in the south-east - traditionally a barometer of popular tension - broke the veneer of total calm so energetically promoted by President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali's government and police force...


My Arabism tired me out

And despite public lobbying by the League of Arab States’ Secretary General Ismat Abdel Meguid and more discreet moves by Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarak and Tunisia’s President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali Gadaffi believes his Arab allies do nothing to counter the economic sanctions imposed on Libya by the United Nations and insisted upon by the United States...


Polls at a price

Such electoral management is familiar in Tunisia where President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali shows no sign of relaxing his iron grip...


Academic freedoms

Close relations with Europe were underlined in early June by President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali's visit to Italy...


Small headache

This is President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali's record – yet his regime makes Western allies uncomfortable...


Big Ben Ali strikes

Zine el Abidine Ben Ali showed off his self-confidence by spending 20 March the 40th anniversary of Independence being filmed on a visit to Habib Bourguiba the President-for-Life whom he eased out of office...


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