Naceur El Gharbi Naceur El Gharbi Naceur El Gharbi was the Tunisian Minister of Social Affairs, Solidarity, and Tunisians Living Abroad under former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. Naceur El Gharbi was born in Kairouan, Tunisia in 1949. He received a Masters in Public Law, and he is a graduate of the École nationale d'administration. In 1974, he started his career in the Tunisian Ministry of Social Affairs. In 1988, he was appointed as Governor of Gabès. From 2000 to 2004, he was CEO of Pharmacie Centrale Tunisienne, and from 2004 to 2009, he was the CEO of the Tunisian "Caisse Nationale
Secularism in Tunisia his secularism. Following increasing economic problems, Islamist movements came about in 1970 with the revival of religious teaching in Ez-Zitouna University and the influence which came from Arab religious leaders from Syrian and Egyptian Muslim Brotherhoods. There was also influence by Hizb ut-Tahrir, whose members issued a magazine in Tunis named "Azeytouna". Government-induced secularization triggered the formation of the Islamic Tendency Movement; the movement and its leader Rached Ghannouchi turned into a rallying point for government opponents. In the aftermath, the struggle of Bourguiba and then Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, who succeeded him, with political Islamists went out of