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 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.

The country had only had two heads of state since becoming a republic in 1957, ... 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 ...

Tunisia became independent in 1956 after being a French protectorate since 1881. Born in 1903, Bourguiba was the country's president till 1987 when his practicing physicians declared him unfit to ...

Habib Bourguiba Avenue has a symbolic significance for Tunisians. It was there, when thousands of anti Ben Ali regime protesters gathered on 14 January 2011. Ever since that day the avenue, once a ...

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 ...

The country’s geographic location has granted it the ability to The solid foundations laid down by Bourguiba enabled Tunisia to stay intact amid crises and difficult problems AlArabiya ...