Habib Boularès
Habib Boularès ( Arabic الحبيب بولعراس, DMG al-Ḥabīb Būlaʿrās ; * July 29, 1933 in Tunis ; † April 18, 2014 in Paris , France ) was a Tunisian journalist , writer and politician .
Life
Graduated in English in Cairo , in journalism in Strasbourg and in economics at the École pratique des hautes études in Paris, he was a political refugee in Cairo in 1953. He then worked in the secretariat of the Tunisian section of the office of the Arab Maghreb in the Egyptian capital, founded in 1947, and campaigned for the Algerian cause .
At the beginning of Tunisia's independence, he began a career in journalism and was editor of the daily El Amal between 1960 and 1967 and founding president of the Tunis Afrique Presse agency between 1961 and 1962 . He then held the position of General Director of the Établissement de la radiodiffusion-télévision tunisienne (RTT) from 1962 to 1964
He first joined a Tunisian government in 1970 as Minister for Culture and Information. He left this post in 1971 and then went on a long journey during which he crossed the desert. Boularès then took over the management of the École Internationale de l'Agence de Coopération Culturelle et Technique (EIB ACCT) in Bordeaux and worked from 1975 to 1981 on the weekly newspaper Jeune Afrique in Paris.
In 1981 he was elected to the Tunisian Assemblée Nationale and in 1988 was appointed Minister of Culture. In 1990 he became Foreign Minister and shortly afterwards Defense Minister in 1991 before he was elected President of the Tunisian Chamber of Deputies . He left this position in 1997. In 2002 he was elected by the Heads of State of the Maghreb to the post of Secretary General of the Union of the Arab Maghreb . He resigned from this in 2006.
Boularès dealt intensively with the history of Tunisia from antiquity to modern times and wrote two historical dramas with Murad III and Temps du Bouraq . He also wrote Hannibal's first biography from an African perspective.
He was married to a French woman from Nancy who is now Maître de conférences at the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris. Boularès died in Paris in April 2014 at the age of 80 after a long illness.
Works
- Murad III
- Temps du Bouraq , éd. MC-Editions, Carthage, 1979
- Hannibal , Librairie Académique Perrin, Tunis, 2000. ISBN 978-2-262-01712-5
- Histoire de la Tunisie: Les grandes dates, de la Préhistoire à la Révolution , Cérès Editions, Tunis, 2012. ISBN 978-9973-19-754-2
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Ridha Kéfi, “Boularès, ou le temps retrouvé”, Jeune Afrique , March 11, 2002
- ^ Décès de Habib Boularès , accessed April 19, 2014 (French)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Boularès, Habib |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Tunisian journalist, writer and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 29, 1933 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tunis |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 18, 2014 |
| Place of death | Paris , France |