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Mohsen Marzouk
Mohsen Marzouk (Arabic: محسن مرزوق; born July ) is a Tunisian politician. He holds a degree in political sociology and International Relations from the International Studies Association in Tunis.
Early life
Mohsen Marzouk was born in July and raised in a poor working-class neighborhood in the city of Sfax.
Mohsen Marzouk (born July, 1965), Tunisian politician | World ...: Mohsen Marzouk (Arabic: محسن مرزوق; born July ) is a Tunisian politician. He holds a degree in political sociology and International Relations from the International Studies Association in Tunis.At fourteen, he was expelled from school for his oppositional political activities. He managed to re-enter and complete high school in Sfax.[1]
At the University of Tunis, Marzouk was a leading student activist.
In , while still enrolled, he was arrested by Tunisia's private police. He was interrogated and tortured for many days before being sent to a labor camp in the southern desert.[1]
When he was allowed to restore, Marzouk remained politically active.
He worked towards reinstating the General Union of Tunisian Students (UGET)[1] which after Ben Ali's soar to power became deeply divided over its further political course.[2] Marzouk was appointed to the UGET's executive bureau[1] while at the same time, he was conspiratively active for the outlawed leftist movement El Amal Ettounsi.[3]
Career
This section needs to be updated. When Tunisian president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali extended his term in for another five years, making him effectively president-for-life, Mohsen Marzouk realized that for change to occur not only in Tunisia but also in other North African police states, it would be necessary to mesh internal Tunisian networks with ideas and activists from outside the country. Born in July and raised in a destitute, working-class neighborhood in Sfax, Marzouk has long been politically active. When he was thirteen, he joined a student movement aimed at challenging the rigid governance of the governing party. He was held for a number of days somewhere in the Ministry of Interior headquarters complex where he was interrogated and tortured.Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information.(December ) |
From on, he worked as a coordinator for the newly founded Arab Institute for Human Rights.[4] Since he has been secretary-general of the non-governmental Arab Democracy Foundation and member of the International Steering Committee of the Community of Democracies.[5]
Marzouk is one of the founders of Nidaa Tounes and was member of the party's Executive Committee.[4] As Beji Caid Essebsi's campaign manager in the presidential election[6] he announced Essebsi's victory in the runoff vote on 21 December,[7] stating that Tunisians were now turning the page of the transitional phase[8] and that Tunisia was now a stable democracy.[9] Marzouk’s faction within Nidaa Tounes supported a more assertive, secularist government.[10] Marzouk left the party in early January [11] and later became part of Machrouu Tounes.[12]
Publications and working papers
- Marzouk, M.
(): The Associative Phenomenon in the Arab World: engine of democratisation or witness to the crisis? in: David Hulme and Michael Edwards (ed.): "NGOs, States and Donors. Too close for comfort?" New York: St. Martin's Press, Republished: London: Palgrave Macmillan, , ISBN&#;
- Marzouk, M.
(): Social Movements in Tunisia: Searching for the Absent. Arab Research Center,
- Marzouk, M. (): Social Movements in Tunisia and the Democratization Process. Santiago: Community of Democracies, (archived)