Visiting Tunisia three years ago, I thought that it was easy enough to see the main problem. ... Habib Bourguiba, was strongly influenced by the ideas of the French Enlightenment.

The governor of Tunisia's capital Tunis has banned political protests on Avenue Habib Bourguiba, a symbol of the 2011 revolution, ahead of a protest called by the opposition Workers' Party on ...

In Tunisia, Habib Bourguiba relaxed his blockade of French bases enough to permit the entry of civilian trucks carrying food. In Paris, too, there were second thoughts.

Analysis - Tunisia's National Women's Day is often associated with Habib Bourguiba, the country's first president, who pursued the policy of state feminism. Bourguiba ruled the country for 30 ...

Back of France’s sudden fit of savagery was a longer-growing irritation with Tunisia’s President Habib Bourguiba. Increasingly, France blames Bourguiba and his open support of Algeria’s F.L ...

Statues commemorating Tunisia’s first president, Habib Bourguiba, are reappearing in several cities and fueling controversy. After Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali led a bloodless coup against Bourguiba in ...

Tunis/Tunisia — Demonstrators gathered on Saturday, in front of the municipal theatre of Tunis, to protest against the measures decreed, on July 25, 2021, by the President of the Republic ...

Essebsi had an important connection to the events of 1957. He belonged to the party and government of the Republic of Tunisia’s first president, Habib Bourguiba, who was among the most important, and ...

Habib Bourguiba, 96, Tunisia’s former president who fought for his country’s independence and bucked Muslim traditions during three decades as the benign and forward-looking dictator, died ...