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Tunisia

Zine el Abidine Ben Ali

Date of Birth: 3 September 1936


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Has the sun set on the Brothers?

In Tunisia President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali and his kleptocratic family fled to be replaced by an uneasy secular/Islamist coalition in which MB affiliate Ennahda (Renaissance) had a leading role...


Saïed channels Mussolini

The Muslim Brotherhood affiliate Ennahda dominated the decade after the fall of President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali but in successive governments it failed to revive the faltering economy or to create a stable polity...


Into the unknown

Then on election day his widow  Chadlia Farhat succumbed and five days after that on 19  September former president Zine el Abidine Ben Ali  overthrown in the 2011 revolution  died in exile in Saudi Arabia...


Upstarts and old guards

Not for nothing do people increasingly speak with nostalgia about the Zine el Abidine Ben Ali era before the revolution when 800 dinars a month was a comfortable income...


Eight years of transition

Two distinct narratives dominate the political landscape eight years after President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali fled to Saudi Arabia as the Arab Spring erupted...


Tunis fiddles as revolt grows

Since Zine el Abidine Ben Ali was ousted in 2011 Tunisia has been home to combative civil society groups and a resilient political culture described in a new book by political scientist Safwan Masri as being 'predisposed to democracy because of ingredients that are uniquely indigenous to it [Tunisia]'...

Questions about the size solvency and governance of Tunis' financial sector remain as they did when Zine el Abidine Ben Ali – whose cronies borrowed at will from state banks – was overthrown (AC Vol 56 No 3 Doubts over banks sell-off)...


One country for old men

A co-founder of the party he was already well-known for Islamist activism when Zine el Abidine Ben Ali became President in 1987...

Ministry veteran Abderrahmene Belhaj Ali was President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali's first head of presidential security appointed in November 1987...


Complicated confiscation

New Finance Minister Slim Chaker has been warned against confiscating assets from members of the inner circle of ex-President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali's regime Africa Confidential understands...


Doubts over banks sell-off

Secret audits of Tunisia's anaemic state banks have turned up a host of bad loans from the era of former President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali...


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