The summer residence of Tunisia’s first post-independence president Habib Bourguiba has turned into a museum providing the public with a rare opportunity to explore the leader’s private life ...

EDGING cautiously into the future in a gloomy region, many Tunisians are tempted to look back in pride to Habib Bourguiba, the country’s first post-independence president. Although he was hardly ...

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 ...

The first president of the country, and the tenacious leader of its independence movement, Habib Bourguiba, was strongly influenced by the ideas of the French Enlightenment.

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 ...

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 ...

Visiting Tunisia means taking a look at history and the future at the same time. The country’s geographic location has granted it the ability to receive the new and the different, comprehend new ...

The prestigious Habib Bourguiba Avenue, once a touristic and commercial attraction, turned into an epicenter of protests in January 2011 when thousands of protesters demanding the fall of the regime ...

Born in 1903, Bourguiba was the country's president till 1987 when his practicing physicians declared him unfit to continue carrying the duties of the office.