11 Facts About Tahar Sfar

Tahar Sfar went to Paris in October 1925 to study law, Literature and political science.

Furthermore, Tahar Sfar created, in the end of 1927, with a group of Tunisian, Algerian and Moroccan student fellows, the Muslim Students Association of North Africa, in which he became the first vice-president.

Tahar Sfar returned to Tunis in 1928 to start working as a lawyer in parallel with numerous other activities: Political economy lessons in El-Khaldounia and writing newspaper articles in Arabic or French, such as La Voix du Tunisien and L'Action Tunisienne, which he founded with Bourguiba, El Materi and Guiga, in 1932.

Tahar Sfar was active in struggling for independence, among the Destour party then created the Neo Destour with L'Action team, during the Ksar Hellal Congress of March 2,1932.

Tahar Sfar was a great friend of Bourguiba, with whom he liked discussing philosophy, his passionate subject.

Tahar Sfar greatly admired Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and, just like him, advocated for nonviolence.

In January 1935, Tahar Sfar was removed under house arrest in Zarzis, in the Tunisian south, along with Guiga and Salah Ben Youssef.

Tahar Sfar benefited from his isolation to study law and literature and write a sort of journal, published in 1960, after his death, titled "Journal of an exiled" with a preface by Andre Demeerseman, manager of Ibla newspaper in Tunis.

Tahar Sfar was imprisoned after the 1938 political crisis, even though he was part, at the time, of the party's moderates.

Tahar Sfar was the son of Mustapha Sfar, a notary in Mahdia.

Tahar Sfar married a cousin, Salha Sfar, daughter of the notary Mohamed Sfar, in 1929.