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Biography of Habib Bourguiba
Name: Habib Bourguiba
Birth Date: August 3, 1903
Death Date: April 6, 2000
Place of Birth: Monastir, Tunisia
Nationality: Tunisian
Gender: Male
Occupations: president
Habib Bourguiba
Habib Bourguiba (1903-2000) was president of the Tunisian Republic and played a primordial role in leading his country's nationalist struggle for independence.Habib Bourguiba was born on Aug. 3, 1903, at Monastir into a modest family. He completed secondary school in Tunis, adhering to the Destour, or liberal constitutional, party. In 1924 he won a scholarship to study political science and law in Paris. Upon returning to Tunis, he joined the bar and in 1930 launched his political career as a Destourian militant. He founded the newspaper Tunisian Action, in which he defined his political goal as the development of a modernist, revolutionary, and laic nationalism.Early Political LifeIn 1934 Bourguiba founded the more radical Neo-Destour party. His dynamism so disturbed the French resident general that Bourguiba was deported to the south, where he remained for two years. He was liberated when the Popular Front government in France attempted to liberalize the colonial regime and initiated …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…man to hold that office in 22 months). Ben Ali staged a coup and deposed of the President for Life, maintaining that Bourguiba was mentally unfit.Bourguiba was hospitalized March 5, 2000 in critical condition at the military hospital in Tunis. But on March 13, he returned to his hometown of Monastir. He died April 6, 2000 at the age of 96. Further Reading An early biography of Bourguiba is in French: Roger Stephane, La Tunisie de Bourguiba (1958). The most definitive biography is Derek Hopwood Habib bourguiba of Tunisia: The Tragedy of Longevity, St. Martin's Press, 1992. Since Bourguiba's career is so closely intertwined with Tunisian nationalism and politics, see Clement Henry Moore, Tunisia since Independence: The Dynamics of One-Party Government (1965), Lars Rudebeck, Party and People: A Study of Political Change in Tunisia (1967); Jean Lacouture, The Demigods: Charismatic Leadership in the Third World , Knopf, 1970; and L.B. Ware, "Ben Ali's Constitutional Coup in Tunisia," Middle East Journal, Autumn 1988, 587-601.
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