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Al-Monitor
March 19, 2018
Though Zhou's visit to Tunis ultimately resulted in the establishment of diplomatic ties between the two countries, tensions were high, with Bourguiba criticizing China's handling of its territorial dispute with India and China's disapproval of the 1963 Partial Test Ban Treaty. Bourguiba went on to sharply tellÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
February 27, 2018
Many families left the underground houses when new towns and villages were built in the 1960s and 1970s as part of a modernisation drive by then-President Habib Bourguiba. Locals suspect Bourguiba wanted to dilute Berber communities as he sought to integrate them into the Arab nation afterÃâà...
DailyNews
February 26, 2018
The first source also told the Daily News that Mahmmat had allegedly told Mnangagwa that Mugabe's demeanour in their meeting had reminded him of an unwell Habib Bourguiba — who was Tunisia's leader from independence in 1956 to 1987. Bourguiba was removed from power after he became tooÃâà...
Jacobin magazine
February 17, 2018
Bourguiba adapted the values of the French colonial power to create an image of a modern and secular Tunisia. Often portrayed by his allies as a “radical cultural modernizer,” Bourguiba promoted the interests of the economic elite, largely disregarding workers. He developed an export-oriented economicÃâà...
Foreign Policy (blog)
December 31, 1999
He credits Tunisia's progress to its size and location, its fairly homogenous population, its long history of reform and liberal thought, and finally to Habib Bourguiba, the enlightened dictator who founded the nation and ruled for almost 30 years. This unique confluence of factors, Masri argues, is what allowedÃâà...
