Abdelwahab Abdallah
Abdelwahab Abdallah ( Arabic عبد الوهاب عبد الله, DMG ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ʿAbd Allāh ; * February 14, 1940 in Monastir ) is a Tunisian diplomat and politician .
biography
After attending the primary school in Sbeitla and the boys' high school in Sousse and the Lycée Alaoui in Tunis , he studied public law and political science at the University of Caen ( France ). After completing the program with a licentiate and diplomas, he completed postgraduate studies at the University of Paris , he with the promotion graduated as a doctor of law degree.
He then worked at the Faculty of Law at the University of Caen, before working in succession from 1971 onwards at the Institute for Business Administration, the Law Faculty at the University of Tunis and the Institute for Press and Information Science in Tunis. He later became a member of the staff of the Minister for National Education and then legal advisor to the Minister. After working as an attaché in the Cabinet of the President of the Republic , he became the Cabinet chief of the Director of the Presidential Cabinet.
He then became head of cabinet of the Minister of Culture and then of the Minister of Information, before he became President and General Director of the Society for Printing, Press and Publishing in 1979 and also director of the daily newspaper “La Presse de Tunisie”. On August 6, 1986 he was appointed director of the state press agency Tunis Afrique Presse.
On September 10, 1987, he was finally appointed information minister in the cabinet of Prime Minister Rachid Sfar and held this office under Sfar's successors Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali and Hédi Baccouche until October 1988. During this time, General Ben Ali overthrew President Habib Bourguiba in November 1987 ( Jasmine Revolt ). In January 1988 he was also elected as a candidate for the Constitutional Democratic Collection (RCD) to be a member of the Chamber of Deputies (Chambre des députés), in which he represented the interests of the constituency of Monastir . In July 1988, Abdallah also became a member of the RCD Central Committee.
In October 1988 he was appointed ambassador to Great Britain . In this capacity he was also accredited as Ambassador to Ireland .
Upon his return, on December 20, 1990, Abdallah became a ministerial advisor and spokesman for President Ben Ali. After thirteen years as spokesman for the president, he handed this office over to Abdelaziz Ben Dhia in November 2003, but remained a ministerial advisor and was also head of the department for political and regional affairs in the presidential office.
On August 17, 2005, as part of a cabinet reshuffle, he was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs in Prime Minister Mohamed Ghannouchi's cabinet . Since March 9, 2006, he has also been a member of the RCD Politburo.
In July 2008, alongside Federal Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier , he was the patron of the ceremony in Berlin for the 50th anniversary of German-Tunisian relations.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ TUNISIA. Suspicion of old age - after the overthrow of the aged head of state Burgiba, the new president promises democracy. In: DER SPIEGEL. Retrieved October 2, 2009 .
- ^ Abdelwahab Abdallah-Foreign Minister of Tunisia. In: Magharebia. Archived from the original on July 30, 2010 ; accessed on January 4, 2014 .
- ^ 50 Years of German-Tunisian Relations: Greetings from the Federal Foreign Minister. Federal Foreign Office, July 2, 2007, accessed January 4, 2014 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Abdallah, Abdelwahab |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Tunisian politician and diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 14, 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Monastir |