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 Cover of L'Action Tunisienne (May 4, 1933), with the headline story reporting on the Naturalized Tunisian issue. | |
| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Founder(s) | |
| Founded | 1 November 1932 |
| Ceased publication | 19 March 1988 |
| Country | Tunisia |
L'Action Tunisienne (sometimes abbreviated to L'Action) is a former Tunisian Francophone newspaper founded by Habib Bourguiba and published from November 1, 1932, to March 19, 1988. Working for the Destour party, at first, it later became part of the Neo-Destour then the Socialist Destourian Party, since its foundation on March 2, 1934, in Ksar Hellal.
It gathered nationalist activist like Béchir M'hedhbi, co-founder of the journal and its first editor in chief, Mahmoud El Materi, Bahri Guiga, M'hamed Bourguiba, Ali Bouhajeb and Tahar Sfar.
Becoming a daily newspaper, it pursued its publishing after Tunisia's independence in 1956. Its last edition was published on March 19, 1988. It was replaced the following morning by Le Renouveau newspaper.[1]
- ^ Hamdān, Muhammad (1994), Guide des périodiques parus en Tunisie de l'indépendance à 1993, Tunis: National Tunisian Documentation Center, p. 33