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Abdel Wahab Hani

Abdelwahab Hani was born on January, 18th, 1965 in Al Hancha (Sfax). When he was a student at university, he participated in many associations. In the 80′s, he was the vice president of the General Union of Tunisian Students[...]

Abdelfattah Amor

The late Abdelfattah Amor was president of the National Commission of Investigating Corruption and Wrongdoings and the Emeritus President and Dean of the University of Law and Political Science in Tunis. He had also been the president of the[...]

Abdelfattah Mourou

Abdelfattah Mourou was born on June 1st, 1948 in Tunis. He is a lawyer and a Tunisian politician of the Islamist trend. He studied in Sadiki High School, then pursued his studies in the University of Tunis and obtained[...]

Abdelkarim Harouni

Abdelkarim Harouni was born on December 17, 1960 in La Marsa, and is a prominent figure in the center-right Islamist party, Ennahda. He attended Carthage Presidence High School, and received a degree in architectural engineering from E.N.I.T. University in Manar. In 1990, Harouni worked as an[...]

Abdelkarim Zbidi

Abdelkrim Zbidi was born on June 25, 1950 in Rejiche, a town in the Governorate of Mahdia. Zbidi holds a Doctorate of Medicine from the University of Claude Bernard in Lyon,France. He also received a masters degree in human physiology, a masters in human pharmacology, a[...]

Abdellatif Abid

Abdellatif Abid was born on October 1, 1947 in Korba, Nabel. He is one of the founding members of Ettakatol’s political bureau. Abid served as the minister of education in the interim government of former Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali. He was nevertheless replaced[...]

Abdelwaheb Matar

Abdelwaheb Matar was born on March 23, 1952 in Sfax. He is a lawyer and a constitutional law professor at the University of Tunis. He was one of the original founders of the Congress for the Republic (CPR) party.[...]

Abderrahim Zouari

Abderrahim Zouari is a Tunisian politician, who served in many very high level positions. Zouari started his career at the age of 23 when he served as the head of the Municipality of Dahmani. He was subsequently appointed as[...]

Abderrahman Ladgham

Abderrahman Ladgham is the Deputy Prime Minister for Transparency and Fighting Corruption. He is a member of the Ettakatol political party. He was the head of the electoral list of Manouba, and is now a deputy in the Constituent Assembly.[...]

Abderrazak Kilani

Abderazzak Kilani was born On June 25th, 1954 in the Tunisian capital, Tunis. He is a lawyer and has currently been nominated to serve as Deputy Prime Minister for relations with the Constituent Assembly. His primary and secondary education[...]

Abdessalem Jrad

Born on January 23, 1937 in Kerkennah, Sfax, Abdessalem Jrad is a prominent Tunisian unionist leader. Jrad’s involvement with the unions began early. During the 1960s, he became the Secretary General of the Transportation Union in Tunis and Deputy Secretary General[...]

Abou Yaareb Marzouki Follow

Abou Yaareb Marzouki is a professor of Greek, German, and Arabic Philosophy, born on March 29, 1947 in Bizerte, Tunisia’s northernmost coastal city. He was the head of Ennahdha’s list in the Tunis 1 electoral district and acted as an[...]

Adnan Hajji

Labor activist and dissident Adnan Hajji was born on October 25th, 1958 in the town of Redeyef in the southern district of Gafsa. He attended elementary and middle school in his home town. He then moved to Touzeur, where[...]

Ahmed Ibrahim

Ahmed Ibrahim is the secretery general of the Ettajdid Movement (Movement for Renewal). This party, founded on 1993, is the new verison of the former Tunisian Communist Party where Mr. Ibrahim had started his poltical career in the sixties. He[...]

Ahmed Mestiri

Ahmed Mestiri is a politician and lawyer born in La Marsa on July 2, 1925. An early leader in the Tunisian Independence Movement, he was a member of the Liberal Constitutional Party (Commonly called Destour Party) that was founded[...]

Ahmed Néjib Chebbi

Born in Tunis on July 30th, 1944, Ahmed Nejib Chebbi is a lawyer, opposition figure during the Ben Ali period, and a leftist activist. Chebbi studied in the French-Arabic school of Ariana, Carnot High School, and subsequently in Père Blanc.[...]

Ali Laarayedh

Ali Laarayedh is one of the most well-known leaders of Ennahda. He occupied the position of Minister of Interior in the government of former Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali. On February 22, 2013, Laarayedh become prime minister, replacing Jebali, who resigned after[...]

Ali Seriati

Ali Seriati was a Tunisian general and the former security chief of ousted Tunisian President, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. He was arrested on January 14th 2011 and is currently detained in Tunis at El Aouina prison. He was[...]

Bachir Chammam

Bachir Chammam is National Constituent Assembly member (NCA) of Ennahdha party in the October 2011 elections as the representative of Kebili, an oasis city in southeastern Tunisia. Chammam is the only black member of the NCA. He was elected[...]

Béchir Tekkari

Béchir Tekkari is a Tunisian politician who held several positions in the administration of the deposed president, Zine el Abedine Ben Ali. Tekkari was also an active board member of the dissolved RCD (Constitutional Democratic Rally) party tied to[...]

Bechir Zaafouri

Bechir Zaafouri was born on July 25, 1963 in Sidi Bouzid. Zaafouri holds an MBA in Accounting from IHEC University, (Institut des Hauts Etudes Commerciales de Carthage). Zaafouri is the Chief Executive Officer of a Tunisian chain of wholesale distributors[...]

Beji Caid Essebsi

Beji Caid Essebsi is the founder and chairman of the Nidaa Tounes, or “Call of Tunisia,” party. It is a secularist political party that was founded on June 16, 2012 after the post-revolution 2011 elections. In less than a[...]

Borhen Bsais

Even though Borhene Bsais is an important public figure. The internet gives little information about him, especially prior to 1998 and regarding his position and career during the rule of Tunisia’s former President Ben Ali. Born in 1970, Borhene[...]

Chedly Ayari

Chedly Ayari is an economist and politician who has served as governor of the Tunisian Central Bank since July 2012. He was born on August 21, 1933. He studied economics at the Sorbonne in France and received a doctorate[...]

Chokri Belaid

Chokri Belaid (November 26, 1964 – February 6, 2013) was a politician, a leftist opposition figure, a Tunisian lawyer, and a former member of the Supreme Commission for achieving the goals of the revolution, political reform, and democratic transition.[...]

Cyrine Ben Ali Mabrouk

Cyrine Ben Ali Mabrouk is the daughter of Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali from his first wife, Naima Kefi. Born on August 21, 1971 in Bardo, Cyrine married businessman Marouane Mabrouk in 1996. When Shems FM launched in 2010, Cyrine[...]

Elyes Fakhfakh Follow

Elyes Fakhfakh is an engineer and a Tunisian politician who is currently the Minister of Finance. Fakhfakh is member of the center left political party Ettakatol. In the cabinet of former Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali, prior to the cabinet[...]

Emna Mnif Follow

The revolution of January 14th was an opportunity for many political figures to leave the shadow and participate in the political scene of Tunisia. Emna Mnif is one of these figures and was spokesman of the Afek Tounes party. Mnif[...]

Faouzi Elloumi

Faouzi Elloumi is a businessman and politician in the Nidaa Tounes opposition party. He is the CEO of Elloumi Group — which includes Chakira Cables (CC), COFAT company, and Coficab — and he is a member of the executive body[...]

Farhat Rajhi

He was the former minister of interior in the second government after January 14th. On March 31, he was appointed president of the Supreme Committee for the Human Rights and Fundamental Freedom. He gave a very controversial interview that[...]

Habib Essid

Born in Sousse on June 1st 1949, Habib Essid was appointed Minister of Interior of the interim government on March 28th, 2011 after the dismisaal of Farhat Rajhi. Essid received his MA in Economics from the Faculty of Law and[...]

Habib Khedher

Habib Khedher is a young politician currently serving in Tunisia’s National Constituent Assembly (NCA) as the head of the Public Authorities Subcommittee. He is currently a member of the central office of legal affairs in the moderate Islamist Ennahda[...]

Hamadi Jebali Follow

Hamadi Jebali is Tunisia’s former prime minister. He resigned on February 19 when his own party, Ennahdha, refused his initiative to create a nonpartisan, technocratic government for the purpose of resolving the heightened political tensions after opposition leader Chokri Belaid’s[...]

Hamma Hammami

Hamma Hammami — born January 8th, 1952 in El Aroussa in Northwest Tunisia — was the current spokesman and one of the founders of the Tunisian Workers’ Communist Party (POCT). He became its secretary general at the end of July[...]

Hashmi Hamdi Follow

Mohammed Al Hashmi Ben Youssef Ben Ali Hamid was born in the province of Sidi Bouzid, south of Kairouan, in central Tunisia. He received his BA in Arabic Language and Literature from the Faculty of Arts, University of Tunis,[...]

Hedi Ben Abbes Follow

Hedi Ben Abbes was born on August 5th 1961, in Tboursek, which is situated in the northwest governorate of Beja. Ben Abbes is a spokesperson of the Congress for the Republic party (CPR) and he is currently nominated to[...]

Hussein Abassi

Hussein Abassi was born on August 19th, 1947 in Sbeikha, Kairaouan. Abassi began his career as a teacher, and later became the dean of students in a high school. In 1983, Abassi became a member of the General Union[...]

Hussein Dimassi

Hussein Dimassi was born on November 18th, 1948 in Ksar Hellal, which is a town in the Governorate of Monastir. He taught at the Faculty of Law and Sciences in Tunis from 1973 to 1968, within this period, he[...]

Ibrahim Qassas

Ibrahim Qassas is a Tunisian politician serving in the country’s Constituent Assembly. He is the head of an Al Aridha (Popular Petition) list from the district of Kebili, in southwest Tunisia. He was elected to the Tunisian Constituent Assembly[...]

Jalel Brick Follow

Jalel Brick is a pro-democracy activist, born on August 15, 1963, in Carthage, Tunisia. He studied in both the Manouba University of Arts and the University of Law in Tunis. He is one of the co-founders of UGET (General[...]

Jamel Eddine Gharbi

Jamel Eddine Gharbi was born on December 5th, 1964 in Jendouba. He is a member of Ennahda, Tunisia’s center-right Islamist party, and has been appointed to Minister of Planning and Regional Development. He received a PhD from IHEC University[...]

Jamel Gamra

Jamel Gamra is minister of tourism in the cabinet of Prime Minister Ali Laarayedh and CEO of the Tunisian Navigation Company (CTN). He was born on September 4, 1961, He is an engineer in maritime transportation and received a[...]

Kamel Eltaief

Kamel Ltaief or Eltaief is a controversial Tunisian politician and a former close friend of the deposed Tunisian president Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali. Regarded as the mastermind behind Ben Ali’s ascendancy to power through a bloodless coup on November[...]

Kamel Morjane

Kamel Morjane is a Tunisian politician, who most recently served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs under the government of Tunisia’s deposed president Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali. The statesman resigned from this post, however, on January 27th, 2011. Morjane[...]

Khalil Zaouia

Khalil Zaouia is one of the founding members of the Ettakatol Party — Democratic Forum of Liberties and Labour. He has been involved in the party since 1994. He is minister of social affairs in the interim government. Ettakatol[...]

Khayam Turki

Khayam Turki was born in Paris in April, 1965. Being the son of a diplomat, he attended primary and secondary school in a number of different locations including La Haye, Rome, Tunis, Stockholm and London. He pursued his graduate and post graduate[...]

Lamine Doghri

Lamine Doghri, born May 25, 1961 in Tunis, was appointed as the Minister of Development and International Cooperation in the government of Prime Minister Ali Laarayedh. Prior to joining the current government, Doghri was the deputy minister in charge[...]

Larbi Ben Salah Abid

Larbi Abid is the Second Deputy Vice President of Tunisia’s Constituent Assembly and the Secretary General for the Greater Metropolitan Tunis area at Congress for the Republic (CPR). CPR is one of the major winners of the October 23rd Constituent[...]

Leila Ben Ali

Born October 24th, 1956, Leïla Trabelsi Ben Ali is the wife of Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, the deposed president of Tunisia. Leila served as president of the Arab Women Organization and as chair of the Basma Association — a charity organization supposedly working[...]

Lotfi Ben Jeddou

Lotfi Ben Jeddou is Tunisia’s minister of interior. He has worked as an investigating judge in Kasserine governorate, in central western Tunisia, for more than 20 years. Ben Jeddou has also worked as a general prosecutor. Ben Jeddou is[...]

Lotfi Zitoun Follow

Co-authored with Sana Ajmi Lotfi Zitoun was born on August 13, 1964 in Tunis. Zitoun used to serve as an adviser to former Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali. Zitoun is also a prominent media figure and researcher specializing in political science[...]

Maya Jribi

Maya Jribi was the first woman to become secretary-general of a major political party in Tunisia — and the second in the Maghreb region — when she was appointed secretary-general of the Progressive Democratic Party (PDP) on December 25th,[...]

Mehdi Jomaa

Mehdi Jomaa is minister of industry in the cabinet of Prime Minister Ali Laarayedh. He was born on September 4, 1961, He got his Engineering degree from the National Institute of Engineers in Tunis (ENIT) in 1988, and a[...]

Mehdi Mabrouk

Mehdi Mabrouk is a famed Tunisian sociologist and an author of numerous books. His latest book is called Voile et Sel (2010), which addresses illegal immigration from Tunisia to European countries along the Mediterranean sea such as France and Italy.[...]

Mehrezia Labidi-Maiza

Mehrezia Labidi-Maiza, member of the Constituent Assembly for Ennahdha in the Paris 1 voting district, was elected to be the first vice-president of the Assembly on Novermber 22nd, 2011. She obtained 142 votes out of a total of 214.[...]

Memia Benna

Memia Benna was born in 1966 in Tunis. She was an assistant professor in Bizerte School of Science in the Department of Chemistry. She is now the Secretary General of the Higher Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology in Borj Cedria.[...]

Moez Chakchouk Follow

Moez Chakchouk has been the head of the Tunisian Internet Agency (ATI by its French acronym) since shortly after the January revolution, and was responsible for ending what had been one of the most comprehensive filtering, monitoring, and censorship[...]

Mohamed Abbou

Mohamed Abbou is the secretary general of the Congress for the Republic (CPR) party, the second major winner (29 seats/217) of the Oct. 23rd Constituent Assembly election in Tunisia. Abbou was the head of CPR list in the Nabel 1[...]

Mohamed Ben Salem

Mohamed Ben Salem was born February 19, 1953. He is currently an engineer and a member of the executive office of Ennahda. Ben Salem occupied a number of different positions in Ennahda. He was member of the Shura Council in 1989, deputy[...]

Mohamed Jegham

Mohamed Jegham, born in 1943 in Hammam Sousse, is a businessman and a Tunisian politician. After studying economics and graduating from the National School of Administration in Tunisia, Mohamed Jegham worked at the Ministry of the Interior. He was[...]

Mohamed Lamine Chakhari

Mohamed Lamine Chakhari was born on May 17, 1957 in Foussana, Kasserine, and is a member of Ennahdha, a center-right Islamist party within the governing coalition of the Constituent Assembly. Chakhari holds a doctorate in mechanical engineering, and is a professor at the[...]

Mohamed Selmane

Mohamed Selmane was born October 9, 1958 in Nabeul. He is currently the General Director of the Tunisian-Libyan Investment Office. Selmane is also the Director of Tunisia Highway Company. He is married and has three children. Selmane is the[...]

Moncef Ben Salem

Moncef Ben Salem is an influential member of the moderate Islamic party, Ennahdha, and is the party’s deputy in the Constituent Assembly from the Sfax 1 electoral district. Ben Salem was proposed by the governing coalition as the Minister of Higher[...]

Moncef Cheikh-Rouhou

Moncef Cheikh-Rouhou is a famous Tunisian economist with broad experience abroad, particularly in France and the United States. Most Tunisians would associate the surname Cheikh-Rouhou with Habib Cheikh-Rouhou, one of the militants that propelled Tunisia’s independence from France and[...]

Moncef Marzouki Follow

Moncef Marzouki was the leader of the center-left party CPR (Congress For the Republic) until he became the fifth Tunisian President as of December 12, 2011. In 2001, Marzouki founded the Congress for the Republic Party (CPR), which took[...]

Mongi Marzoug

Mongi Marzoug is currently a Director at Orange, a French telecom company. He went to Ecole Polytechnique from 1982 to 1984 and to Télécom Paris from 1984 to 1986. He earned a PhD in physics in 1989. He joined Orange[...]

Mustapha Ben Jaafar Follow

Mustapha Ben Jaafar was elected president of Tunisia’s Constituent Assembly as of November 22, 2011 by 145 out of 213 votes. He is the founder and secretary general of the center-left party Ettakatol (FDTL), also called the Democratic Forum for[...]

Nadhir Ben Ammou

Nominated is the justice minister in Ali Laraayedh’s government, Nadhir Ben Ammou is a Tunisian lawyer and university law professor at the University of Law and Political Science in Tunis. Ben Ammou is a politically independent figure. He graduated from[...]

Nadia Chaabane Follow

Nadia Chaabane is a Tunisian politician. She was born on January 18, 1965. She grew up in Nabeul and pursued her studies in France at the University of Burgundy and later obtained a doctorate in linguistics at the University of[...]

Naoufel Jamali

Naoufel Jamali is the new minister of employment and vocational training in the cabinet of Prime Minister-Designate Ali Laarayedh. He is not affiliated with any political party. He was born in 1976 in Tunis Jamali started working as a[...]

Noureddine Bhiri

Noureddine Bhiri is the deputy minister of political affairs in the interim government of Prime Minister Ali Laarayedh. He previously served as the minister of justice in the interim government of former Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali. On March 8, 2013,[...]

Othman Jerandi

Othman Jerandi is minister of foreign affairs He was nominated on March 8, 2013 by Prime Minister-Designate Ali Laarayedh. After graduating with a Bachelor’s degree in Communications from the Journalism School in Tunis and studying French literature, Jerandi started his early[...]

Rached Ghannouchi Follow

Rached Kheriji, known as Rached Ghannouchi, was born in June 1941 in El Hamma, Gabes, in southern Tunisia. Ghannouchi is a writer, politician, co-founder of the Ennahda Movement and one of the most prominent Islamist figures in Tunisia. After[...]

Rachid Sabbagh

Rachid Sabbagh is Tunisia’s minister of defense. He is a former judge and president of the Supreme Court. He was nominated to be the head of the High Islamic Council in July 2011 during the transitional government following the revolution. He[...]

Rafik Abdessalem Follow

Rafik Abdessalem, 43, is a member of the moderate Islamic party, Ennahdha, and the party leader Rached Gannouchi’s son-in-law. He served as minister of foreign affairs within the coalition government of former Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali. In the cabinet reshuffle[...]

Rafik Haj Kassem

Rafik Haj Kassem was the Interior Minister during Ben Ali’s government. He was nominated to hold this position on November 10th, 2004, and was considered to be one of the most loyal figures to Ben Ali and his regime.[...]

Ridha Grira

Ridha Grira is a Tunisian politician, born in Sousse in 1955. He obtained his Baccalaureate exam from Sousse Boys high school in 1974. He was later admitted to Lycée Louis-Le-Grand in Paris preparatory classes for entrance into the Grandes[...]

Ridha Saidi

Ridha Saidi was born on November 24th, 1962, in Menzel Bourguiba, a city in Bizerte. Saidi was nominated to serve as the Deputy Minister of Economy in charge of economic affairs in Tunisia’s new interim government. Saidi received an[...]

Sadok Belaid

Sadok Belaid is currently the head of Kafaa (“Capacity” in Arabic), an independent list in the Ben Arous election district, a small but prominent area located south of Tunis. Before deciding to run in Tunisia’s 2011 Constituent Assembly elections,[...]

Sadok Chourou

Sadok Chourou, born in 1952, is a candidate of Tunisia’s moderate Islamist party, Ennahdha, for the electoral district Ben Arous and deputy member in the Tunisian Constituent Assembly. Chourou obtained a PhD in Chemistry from the Faculty of Sciences[...]

Said Aïdi

Said Aïdi is a member of the political bureau of the opposition Al Joumhouri party. He was appointed minister of training and employment in the transitional government following the Tunisian revolution. His rich experience as an entrepreneur and manager[...]

Saida Agrebi

Saida Agrebi is a controversial figure in Tunisia. She joined the Arab Labor Organization and was appointed as director of the Bureau of the Arab Working Woman until 1987. In 1995, she was nominated as director of communications at[...]

Salem Labyedh

Salem Labyedh is the minister of education in the cabinet of Prime Minister Ali Laarayedh. He was born on March 14, 1964 in the southeastern governorate of Zarzis, He worked as a secondary school teacher from 1995 to 2000,[...]

Salma Rekik

Salma Elloumi Rekik is a politician and business woman. She is the co-founder of the Nidaa Tounes party, and CEO of Stifen and Societé Cofat Med (SCM). She started her professional career in her family wiring company (SCM). The[...]

Samir Dilou Follow

Samir Dilou is currently Minister of Human Rights and Transitional Justice. He is also a lawyer and member of the Executive Bureau of the Ennahdha Party. Dilou occupied the position of Minister of Human Rights and Transitional Justice in the[...]

Samir Tarhouni

Lt. Colonel Samir Tarhouni is an officer in the elite Antiterrorism Brigade (BAT) of the Tunisian security forces. He burst into Tunisian media on August 8th, 2011, at a press conference concerning his role in arresting Trabelsi and Ben Ali[...]

Slim Ben Hamidene

Slim Ben Hamidene was born on 12 May, 1969 in the village of Mai in Djerba. His family was persecuted under the Bourguiba Regime because of their support of Salah Ben Youssef, a Tunisian politician who opposed Habib Bourguiba[...]

Slim Chaker

Slim Chaker was the minister of youth and sports in the interim government of prime minister Beji Caid Essebsi. He has served in that role since July 1st, 2011. Prior to this position, he was appointed Secretary of State[...]

Slim Riahi Follow

Rumors continue to circulate around Slim Riahi, businessman and founder of Tunisia’s Free Patriotic Union Party (Union Patriotique Libre, or UPL). The 39-year-old was unknown before the January 14th revolution. Now he is recognized as the man behind the[...]

Souad Abderrahim

Souad Abderrahim is a member of the Constituent Assembly as she was Ennahda‘s head of list in Tunis II during October 23rd elections. She is pharmacist and owns a pharmaceutical company. She was born on December 16th 1964, and is[...]

Suha Arafat

Suha Arafat, born Suha Ben Daoud Tawil, is originally from Nablus (located in the West Bank, north of Jerusalem). She was born on July 17th, 1963 and is from a Christian Orthodox Palestinian family. Suha holds French citizenship and pursued[...]

Taher Hmila

Taher Hmila, born on July 25th, 1938, is originally from Msekin but lives now in Sousse (located on the coast of Tunisia). He was a teacher and then the administrator of a high school, but was forced into retirement[...]

Tarak Dhiab

Known as the “Tunisian Michel Platini,” Tarak Dhiab is a former football player, businessman, and TV commentator for the Al-Jazeera Sports TV channel. Born on July 15, 1954, Dhiab grew up playing football in the streets of Tunis. After[...]

Tarek Kahlaoui Follow

Tarek Kahlaoui is an assistant professor of Islamic art and Islamic history at Rutgers University, New Jersey. He focuses on Islamic cartography, urbanism, and codicology, and he has taken part in excavations in Islamic and ancient sites in Tunisia.[...]

Touhami Abdouli

Touhami Abdouli was born on March 1st, 1969 in Sousse. He is a Professor of Philosophy, who now serves as the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs responsible for European affairs. In 2000, Abdouli received his Doctorate in Philosophy from the[...]

Yadh Ben Achour

Born in 1945 in La Marsa, Yadh Ben Achour is a Tunisian jurist specializing in Islamic political theory. He hails from a theological background, as Ben Achour’s father is the late Mohamed Fadhel Ben Achour, a great religious figure in[...]

Yassine Ibrahim Follow

Yassine Ibrahim is a prominent Tunisian businessman, who served briefly as Minister of Transport in Beji Caid Essebsi’s interim government. He is currently a member of the opposition Al Joumhouri party. Ibrahim is a French-Tunisian, born in 1966 in[...]

Abdelkarim Harouni

Abdelkarim Harouni was born on December 17, 1960 in La Marsa, and is a prominent figure in the center-right Islamist party, Ennahda. He attended Carthage Presidence High School, and received a degree in architectural engineering from E.N.I.T. University in Manar. In 1990, Harouni worked as an[...]

Abdelwaheb Matar

Abdelwaheb Matar was born on March 23, 1952 in Sfax. He is a lawyer and a constitutional law professor at the University of Tunis. He was one of the original founders of the Congress for the Republic (CPR) party.[...]

Abderrahman Ladgham

Abderrahman Ladgham is the Deputy Prime Minister for Transparency and Fighting Corruption. He is a member of the Ettakatol political party. He was the head of the electoral list of Manouba, and is now a deputy in the Constituent Assembly.[...]

Abderrazak Kilani

Abderazzak Kilani was born On June 25th, 1954 in the Tunisian capital, Tunis. He is a lawyer and has currently been nominated to serve as Deputy Prime Minister for relations with the Constituent Assembly. His primary and secondary education[...]

Ali Laarayedh

Ali Laarayedh is one of the most well-known leaders of Ennahda. He occupied the position of Minister of Interior in the government of former Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali. On February 22, 2013, Laarayedh become prime minister, replacing Jebali, who resigned after[...]

Chedly Ayari

Chedly Ayari is an economist and politician who has served as governor of the Tunisian Central Bank since July 2012. He was born on August 21, 1933. He studied economics at the Sorbonne in France and received a doctorate[...]

Elyes Fakhfakh Follow

Elyes Fakhfakh is an engineer and a Tunisian politician who is currently the Minister of Finance. Fakhfakh is member of the center left political party Ettakatol. In the cabinet of former Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali, prior to the cabinet[...]

Jamel Eddine Gharbi

Jamel Eddine Gharbi was born on December 5th, 1964 in Jendouba. He is a member of Ennahda, Tunisia’s center-right Islamist party, and has been appointed to Minister of Planning and Regional Development. He received a PhD from IHEC University[...]

Jamel Gamra

Jamel Gamra is minister of tourism in the cabinet of Prime Minister Ali Laarayedh and CEO of the Tunisian Navigation Company (CTN). He was born on September 4, 1961, He is an engineer in maritime transportation and received a[...]

Khalil Zaouia

Khalil Zaouia is one of the founding members of the Ettakatol Party — Democratic Forum of Liberties and Labour. He has been involved in the party since 1994. He is minister of social affairs in the interim government. Ettakatol[...]

Lamine Doghri

Lamine Doghri, born May 25, 1961 in Tunis, was appointed as the Minister of Development and International Cooperation in the government of Prime Minister Ali Laarayedh. Prior to joining the current government, Doghri was the deputy minister in charge[...]

Lotfi Ben Jeddou

Lotfi Ben Jeddou is Tunisia’s minister of interior. He has worked as an investigating judge in Kasserine governorate, in central western Tunisia, for more than 20 years. Ben Jeddou has also worked as a general prosecutor. Ben Jeddou is[...]

Mehdi Jomaa

Mehdi Jomaa is minister of industry in the cabinet of Prime Minister Ali Laarayedh. He was born on September 4, 1961, He got his Engineering degree from the National Institute of Engineers in Tunis (ENIT) in 1988, and a[...]

Mehdi Mabrouk

Mehdi Mabrouk is a famed Tunisian sociologist and an author of numerous books. His latest book is called Voile et Sel (2010), which addresses illegal immigration from Tunisia to European countries along the Mediterranean sea such as France and Italy.[...]

Memia Benna

Memia Benna was born in 1966 in Tunis. She was an assistant professor in Bizerte School of Science in the Department of Chemistry. She is now the Secretary General of the Higher Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology in Borj Cedria.[...]

Mohamed Ben Salem

Mohamed Ben Salem was born February 19, 1953. He is currently an engineer and a member of the executive office of Ennahda. Ben Salem occupied a number of different positions in Ennahda. He was member of the Shura Council in 1989, deputy[...]

Mohamed Selmane

Mohamed Selmane was born October 9, 1958 in Nabeul. He is currently the General Director of the Tunisian-Libyan Investment Office. Selmane is also the Director of Tunisia Highway Company. He is married and has three children. Selmane is the[...]

Moncef Marzouki Follow

Moncef Marzouki was the leader of the center-left party CPR (Congress For the Republic) until he became the fifth Tunisian President as of December 12, 2011. In 2001, Marzouki founded the Congress for the Republic Party (CPR), which took[...]

Mongi Marzoug

Mongi Marzoug is currently a Director at Orange, a French telecom company. He went to Ecole Polytechnique from 1982 to 1984 and to Télécom Paris from 1984 to 1986. He earned a PhD in physics in 1989. He joined Orange[...]

Mustapha Ben Jaafar Follow

Mustapha Ben Jaafar was elected president of Tunisia’s Constituent Assembly as of November 22, 2011 by 145 out of 213 votes. He is the founder and secretary general of the center-left party Ettakatol (FDTL), also called the Democratic Forum for[...]

Nadhir Ben Ammou

Nominated is the justice minister in Ali Laraayedh’s government, Nadhir Ben Ammou is a Tunisian lawyer and university law professor at the University of Law and Political Science in Tunis. Ben Ammou is a politically independent figure. He graduated from[...]

Naoufel Jamali

Naoufel Jamali is the new minister of employment and vocational training in the cabinet of Prime Minister-Designate Ali Laarayedh. He is not affiliated with any political party. He was born in 1976 in Tunis Jamali started working as a[...]

Noureddine Bhiri

Noureddine Bhiri is the deputy minister of political affairs in the interim government of Prime Minister Ali Laarayedh. He previously served as the minister of justice in the interim government of former Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali. On March 8, 2013,[...]

Othman Jerandi

Othman Jerandi is minister of foreign affairs He was nominated on March 8, 2013 by Prime Minister-Designate Ali Laarayedh. After graduating with a Bachelor’s degree in Communications from the Journalism School in Tunis and studying French literature, Jerandi started his early[...]

Rachid Sabbagh

Rachid Sabbagh is Tunisia’s minister of defense. He is a former judge and president of the Supreme Court. He was nominated to be the head of the High Islamic Council in July 2011 during the transitional government following the revolution. He[...]

Salem Labyedh

Salem Labyedh is the minister of education in the cabinet of Prime Minister Ali Laarayedh. He was born on March 14, 1964 in the southeastern governorate of Zarzis, He worked as a secondary school teacher from 1995 to 2000,[...]

Samir Dilou Follow

Samir Dilou is currently Minister of Human Rights and Transitional Justice. He is also a lawyer and member of the Executive Bureau of the Ennahdha Party. Dilou occupied the position of Minister of Human Rights and Transitional Justice in the[...]

Slim Ben Hamidene

Slim Ben Hamidene was born on 12 May, 1969 in the village of Mai in Djerba. His family was persecuted under the Bourguiba Regime because of their support of Salah Ben Youssef, a Tunisian politician who opposed Habib Bourguiba[...]

Tarak Dhiab

Known as the “Tunisian Michel Platini,” Tarak Dhiab is a former football player, businessman, and TV commentator for the Al-Jazeera Sports TV channel. Born on July 15, 1954, Dhiab grew up playing football in the streets of Tunis. After[...]

Touhami Abdouli

Touhami Abdouli was born on March 1st, 1969 in Sousse. He is a Professor of Philosophy, who now serves as the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs responsible for European affairs. In 2000, Abdouli received his Doctorate in Philosophy from the[...]

Alaya Bettaieb

Alaya Bettaieb is a Tunisian-born petroleum engineer and an entrepreneur. He is currently nominated for the post of minister of planning, international cooperation and exterior investment in Hammadi Jebali‘s government, post-elections interim government; Alaya Bettaieb has no political affiliation and[...]

Chedly Ayari

Chedly Ayari is an economist and politician who has served as governor of the Tunisian Central Bank since July 2012. He was born on August 21, 1933. He studied economics at the Sorbonne in France and received a doctorate[...]

Faouzi Elloumi

Faouzi Elloumi is a businessman and politician in the Nidaa Tounes opposition party. He is the CEO of Elloumi Group — which includes Chakira Cables (CC), COFAT company, and Coficab — and he is a member of the executive body[...]

Fares Mabrouk Follow

Fares is an entrepreneur in the areas of energy and more recently new technologies . He founded and led SME, offering logistic solutions to the oil sector in Tunisia, Algeria, and Libya. Fares is also co-founder of the Arab Policy[...]

Jalloul Ayed

Jalloul Ayed, appointed finance minister in the Tunisian Interim government in 2011, was born February 6, 1951 at Khniss in the governorate of Monastir. Ayed holds a BA in Economics from the Faculty of Law and Economic Sciences of[...]

Mohamed Malouche

Click here for the interview Mohamed Malouche was born in Tunis, Tunisia and is an example of a Tunisian success story. He works now as a senior manager for Deloitte company, in Washington DC metro area. With Deloitte, Mohamed assists clients[...]

Moncef Cheikh-Rouhou

Moncef Cheikh-Rouhou is a famous Tunisian economist with broad experience abroad, particularly in France and the United States. Most Tunisians would associate the surname Cheikh-Rouhou with Habib Cheikh-Rouhou, one of the militants that propelled Tunisia’s independence from France and[...]

Mustapha Kamel Nebli

Former head of the Tunisian Central Bank, Mustapha Kamel Nabli stands as one of the most respectable men in the financial field in Tunisia. Nabli obtained a bachelor’s degree as well as a PhD in economics from the University[...]

Salma Rekik

Salma Elloumi Rekik is a politician and business woman. She is the co-founder of the Nidaa Tounes party, and CEO of Stifen and Societé Cofat Med (SCM). She started her professional career in her family wiring company (SCM). The[...]

Slim Riahi Follow

Rumors continue to circulate around Slim Riahi, businessman and founder of Tunisia’s Free Patriotic Union Party (Union Patriotique Libre, or UPL). The 39-year-old was unknown before the January 14th revolution. Now he is recognized as the man behind the[...]

Tarek Cherif

Tarek Cherif is an entrepreneur and manages a group of companies that engage in various sectors, including the chemical industry, distribution, real estate, hotels, homemade appliances, agriculture, IT, finance, and sea transport. His investments are mainly in field of[...]

Yassine Ibrahim Follow

Yassine Ibrahim is a prominent Tunisian businessman, who served briefly as Minister of Transport in Beji Caid Essebsi’s interim government. He is currently a member of the opposition Al Joumhouri party. Ibrahim is a French-Tunisian, born in 1966 in[...]

Bassem Bouguerra Follow

On his website http://bouguerra.org, Bassem Bouguerra describes himself as a “Revolutionary by nature and a Software Engineer by accident.” The 30 year-old Tunisian blogger works as a Software Architect at Yahoo and currently lives in San Francisco, where he is[...]

Emna Ben Jemaa Follow

Emna Ben Jemaa is a controversial young Tunisian blogger, as well as an Assistant Professor of Marketing at Time University in Tunis. She began blogging in 2005 and was quickly drawn into the blogging community. In an interview conducted by[...]

Fahem Boukadous

He is a journalist and human rights activist. His coverage of the violent protests of Gafsa in 2008 found him incarcerated by the Ben Ali regime. After a speedy trial, he was found guilty of ”criminal conspiracy likely to[...]

Faouzia Mezzi

Faouzia Mezzi is a theater critic and university teacher at IPSI (Press Institute). On January 19th, she became editor-in-chief of state media La Presse Tunisie. Together with a group of journalists from La Presse, she has formed a drafting committee that[...]

Leena Ben Mhenni Follow

The name “Leena Ben Mhenni” has recently spread like wildfire across the national and international stage, due to the 30 year-old Tunisian activist’s nomination for the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize. Ben Mhenni, however, is no recent addition to the public[...]

Mohamed Nabbous

Mohamed Nabbous, a Libyan citizen journalist, blogger, and businessman – became a renowned figure of the Libyan Revolution for his coverage of the February 17th uprising, which would eventually succeed in toppling the regime of Libya’s former ruler Muammar[...]

Mohamed Soufian Ben Farhat

Mohamed Soufian Ben Farhat is a journalist and writer born in 1959, who currently works as the editor of La Presse (a Tunisian newspaper issued in French language). He is a graduate of public law in political science and[...]

Nabil Karoui

Born in Bizerte in 1963, Nabil Karoui is the President and CEO of Maghrebian TV channel Nessma, and Managing Director of Karoui & Karoui Group, specialized in advertising and communications. After he studied Business Management at Sup de Co[...]

Nasreddine Ben Saida

Nasreddine Ben Saida, a Tunisian journalist, is the owner and director of the Tunisian daily Attounissia. Ben Saida was born in Sfax (a city located on Tunisia’s coast) in 1967, and received his BA in Arabic Language. He was a[...]

Olfa Youssef Follow

Olfa Youssef is a Tunisian writer specializing in linguistics, psychology, and Islamic sciences. Olfa Youssef chose to have her PhD on a very critical subject, the plurality of meanings of the Qur’an. Olfa Youssef was not just a scholar,[...]

Sami Fehri

Born on November 7th, 1971, Sami Fehri is a Tunisian TV host, producer, and director. Fehri’s career started in the 1990s when he worked as a host at the Tunisian radio station RTCI. He then joined Karthago group, then[...]

Samir Feriani

Samir Feriani is a high-positioned police officer, who worked at the training center of the Tunisian anti-espionage services. He was arrested on May 29th, 2011 by members affiliated with the Ministry of Interior. Prior to his sudden arrest, Feriani[...]

Sihem Bensedrine Follow

Sihem Bensedrine is a Tunisian journalist and human rights activist. She was born on October 28, 1950 in the La Marsa suburb of Tunis. She was subject to persecution during the regime of former President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali[...]

Taoufik Ben Brik

Taoufik Ben Brik is a journalist and writer. He is one of the Ben Ali’s opponents, who resisted and suffered as a consequence. On April 3, 2000, he went on a 42-day hunger strike, denouncing the violation of human[...]

Tarek Kahlaoui Follow

Tarek Kahlaoui is an assistant professor of Islamic art and Islamic history at Rutgers University, New Jersey. He focuses on Islamic cartography, urbanism, and codicology, and he has taken part in excavations in Islamic and ancient sites in Tunisia.[...]

Zied Krichen

Zied Krichen is a notable Tunisian intellectual and political analyst. He was the editor of the daily newspaper, “The Maghreb.” In addition, he is a lecturer on political issues but namely known for his extensive insight and expertise on[...]

Bochra Belhaj Hmida

Bochra Belhaj Hmida is a Tunisian feminist and lawyer known for her human rights activism. She is the former president of the Tunisian Association of Democratic Women (AFTD). She began her political engagement at the end of the 1970s.[...]

Neziha Réjiba

Neziha Réjiba, also known as Oum Zied (أم زياد), is a Tunisian journalist. She co-founded the online journal Kalima with Sihem Bensedrine in 2000. They also founded a press freedom advocacy group the following year that was banned under[...]

Radhia Nasraoui

Radhia Nasraoui, born in 1953 in Tunis, is a lawyer specializing in human rights. She began campaigning for human rights in the 1970s and suffered persistent persecution under the regime of former president Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, who she[...]

Sihem Bensedrine Follow

Sihem Bensedrine is a Tunisian journalist and human rights activist. She was born on October 28, 1950 in the La Marsa suburb of Tunis. She was subject to persecution during the regime of former President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali[...]

Slim Amamou Follow

Slim Amamou is a Tunisian blogger, activist, and computer programmer. He was born in 1977 and is best known for his resistance to the Ben Ali regime and its anti-censorship stances. Amamou also participated in the founding of the Tunisian[...]

Balti

Balti, real name Mohamed Saleh, was born on April 10th, 1980 in the Medina (Kasbah), where he was raised. Balti started off his artistic career as a member of the boy band Wled Bled (City Boys). Balti was a[...]

Chawki El Mejri

Chawki El Mejri is a Tunisian film and TV series producer. Born on November 11, 1961 in Tunis, El Mejri studied filmmaking in Poland at the same prestigious European school that Roman Polanski attended. Returning to Tunisia, El Mejri[...]

Dhafer L’abdine Follow

Born in Tunis, in 1972, Dhafer L’abdine is a former professional soccer player, who currently works as an actor. Since starting his career, Dhafer has had a marked success as an actor both in Britain and the Middle East.[...]

Emel Mathlouthi Follow

Emel Mathlouthi is a young Tunisian singer born on January 11th, 1982 to a humble family. From an early age, Emel was attracted to the arts. At the age of seven, she began singing, acting, and dancing in local[...]

Hamada Ben Amor — El Général

Born Hamada Ben Amor, but more commonly known by his stage name, El Général, this Tunisian rapper from Sfax has been active on the Tunisian music scene only for the past two years, but he has already made a[...]

Kenza Fourati Follow

Kenza Fourati is Tunisia’s newest supermodel sensation. The 26-year old was born in Lille, France, but Fourati’s family moved to Tunisia when she was only two months old. She attended a French high school in Tunisia and began modeling[...]

Nabila Ben Youssef Follow

Nabila Ben Youssef left Tunisia in 1995 to settle in Quebec, where she became successful as a comedian. Born in 1963 in Sfax, southern Tunisia, in a modest family, the humorist decided to enroll at the dance academy. At the[...]

Nejib Belkadhi Follow

Nejib Belkadhi was born on May 11th 1972. He pursued his studies in marketing and management at the High Institute for Business in Carthage before he starts a career in arts. Nejib received his first acting role in Salma[...]

Olfa Youssef Follow

Olfa Youssef is a Tunisian writer specializing in linguistics, psychology, and Islamic sciences. Olfa Youssef chose to have her PhD on a very critical subject, the plurality of meanings of the Qur’an. Olfa Youssef was not just a scholar,[...]

Saad Ben Saad

Born to Tunisian parents on July 11, 1966 in Tunis, Saad Ben Saada is a French-Tunisian movie producer and CEO of SBS production company. After finishing his secondary education at Carthage Presidence High School, he moved to France in[...]

Tarak Ben Ammar Follow

An international movie producer and distributor, Tarak Ben Ammar is the owner of the French production and distribution company Quinta Communications. He is particularly well-known for producing and distributing artistic films that focus on Mediterranean and North African cultures. According[...]

Oussama Mellouli Follow

Oussama Mellouli is a Tunisian swimmer who recently became the second Tunisian athlete to bring home an Olympic gold medal, following in the footsteps of Mohammed Gammoudi in 1968. In addition to his gold medal in the 1500 meter[...]

Tarak Dhiab

Known as the “Tunisian Michel Platini,” Tarak Dhiab is a former football player, businessman, and TV commentator for the Al-Jazeera Sports TV channel. Born on July 15, 1954, Dhiab grew up playing football in the streets of Tunis. After[...]

Abdel Rahman Chalgam

Abdel Rahman Chalgam is the former Foreign Minister during the Gaddafi era, and the former Libyan representative at the United Nations Security Council. At first incredulous to accounts of widespread murder perpetrated by Gaddafi’s loyalists, he later defected from[...]

Abdelfattah Younes Al Oubaydi

The Major General Abdelfattah Younes Al Oubaydi was the Chief of the Libyan National Liberation Army during the February 17th Revolution and the Interior Minister under Muammar Qaddafi. He was one of the leaders of the Free Unionists Officers[...]

Abdelhakim Belhadj (Abu Abdullah Sadek)

Abdelhakim Khwildi Belhadj is Libya’s Commander of the Tripoli Brigade and the city’s current Chief of the Military Council. He was born in Tripoli, on May 1st, 1966. He studied Civil Engineering and after he graduated, Belhadj left Libya[...]

Abdulrahim Al Keeb

Abdulrahim Khaled Abdulhafiz Al Keeb is a Libyan professor, entrepreneur, and politician. He is an expert in energy economic systems, planning, and controls. He was elected on Monday, October 31st, 2011 by the members of the National Transitional Council[...]

Baghdadi Mahmoudi

Baghdadi Ali Mahmoudi, born in 1945, was the Secretary of the Libyan General People’s Committee (Prime Minister). He headed the Liaison Office of the Revolutionary Committees from March 5th 2006 to August 23th 2011, when Tripoli was taken by[...]

Fathi Terbel

Fathi Terbel is a 39 year-old Libyan lawyer and human rights activist. He served as the Minister of Youth and Sports in Libya’s interim government, and is considered to be one of the most influential figures of Libya’s February[...]

Khalifa Belgassem Hafter

Khalifa Belgassem Hafter is a senior Libyan military official, who defected from the Qaddafi regime following the conclusion Libyan-Chadian war. After spending 20 years in exile in the United States, he returned to Libya in March, 2011, to join[...]

Mahmoud Jebril Follow

Mahmoud Jebril is a planning expert and a senior politician, he was the director of the executive bureau of the National Transitional Council from March 23, 2011 until he resigned from his position in the National Transitional Council in November[...]

Mustafa Abdul Jalil Follow

Mustafa Mohammad Abdul Jalil Fadhil was the head of the Libyan National Transitional Council (NTC). He occupied the position of Justice Minister in Qaddafi’s regime. Abdul Jalil is considered to be the first Libyan senior official to defect from Qaddafi’s government and become an opposition[...]