16 Facts About Mohammed Mzali

Mohammed Mzali was a Tunisian politician who served as prime minister between 1980 and 1986.

Mohammed Mzali's family has ancestry from the Ait Mzal tribe, a Berber tribe from the Sous region of Morocco.

Mohammed Mzali studied at Sadiki College in Tunis and at the Faculty of Humanities at Sorbonne University in Paris.

Mohammed Mzali was vice president of the Federation of Destourian Students in France from 1949 to 1950 and participated in literary social circles.

Mohammed Mzali co-founded the literary magazine Al-Fikr in 1955 with Bechir Ben Slama.

Mohammed Mzali held a series of government posts starting in the late 1950s that would eventually culminate in his becoming prime minister in the early 1980s.

Mohammed Mzali was first elected to Parliament in 1959 and would be re-elected several times thereafter.

Mohammed Mzali served as Tunisia's minister of education for three separate stints during the 1970s.

Mohammed Mzali was interested in Tunisia pursuing a closer international relationship with Gulf countries such as Saudi Arabia.

Mohammed Mzali was appointed Prime Minister of Tunisia by President Habib Bourguiba on 23 April 1980.

Mohammed Mzali gave the impression that Mzali had not been authorized to raise prices.

The clumsy handling of the price rise damaged the position of Mohammed Mzali, who had been seen as the probable successor to Bourguiba.

Mohammed Mzali temporarily assumed the post of Minister of the Interior.

Mohammed Mzali wrote many books, one of them untitled "Un Premier ministre de Bourguiba temoigne".

Mohammed Mzali served as a member of the International Olympic Committee from 1965 until his death.

Mohammed Mzali met Fethia Mokhtar while they were both studying in Paris, and they married in 1950.