Ahmed Brahim أحمد إبراهيم | |
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Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research | |
In office 17 January 2011 – 7 March 2011 | |
President | Fouad Mebazaa (Acting) |
Preceded by | Béchir Tekkari |
Succeeded by | Refâat Chaâbouni |
Personal details | |
Born | 14 June 1946 |
Died | 14 April 2016 | (aged 69)
Political party | Social Democratic Path (since 2012) Ettajdid Movement (1993–2012) Tunisian Communist Party (before 1993) |
Education | Tunis University |
Ahmed Brahim (Arabic: أحمد إبراهيم, ʾAḥmad Ibrāhīm; 14 June 1946 – 14 April 2016) was a Tunisian politician. He was the First Secretary of Ettajdid Movement and the leader of the Democratic Modernist Pole until April 2012, when his party merged into the Social Democratic Path of which he became the president. He was the Ettajdid Movement's candidate for President of Tunisia in the 2009 presidential election. A linguist by profession, he was a professor of French at Tunis University; his area of study was comparative linguistics.[1][2]