Habib Boularès

Habib Boularès ( born July 29, 1933, Tunis ) is a Tunisian journalist, writer and politician.

Graduated in English in Cairo, in journalism in Strasbourg and in economics at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris, he was in 1953 as a political refugee in Cairo. He then worked in the secretariat of the 1947 founded the Tunisian section of the office of the Arab Maghreb in the Egyptian capital, and stood up for the Algerian cause.

At the beginning of the independence of Tunisia, he began a career in journalism and was 1960-1967 editor of the daily El Amal and 1961-1962 Founding President of the Agency Tunis Afrique Press. Then he held from 1962 to 1964 the position of Director General of Établissement de la radio télévision diffusion - Tunisienne (RTT ). He also worked from 1975 to 1981 in the weekly Jeune Afrique.

For the first time he joined in 1970 as Minister of Culture and Information in a Tunisian government a. He left this post in 1971. According to a desert crossing he had from 1982 to 1986 a seat in parliament. In 1990 he became foreign minister and defense minister shortly after 1991, before he was elected President of the Tunisian Chamber of Deputies. He left this position he was elected by the heads of state of the Maghreb to the post of Secretary General of the Arab Maghreb Union in 1997. 2002. Of which he resigned in 2006.

He is married to a French woman coming from Nancy, the Maître de conférences at the University Pierre and Marie Curie in Paris today.