Zine el Abidine Ben Ali

President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali was never entirely happy running the country in the shadow of its founding father Habib Bourguiba...

The arrest of dozens of school and college students during demonstrations in the south-east - traditionally a barometer of popular tension - broke the veneer of total calm so energetically promoted by President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali's government and police force...

Tunisian President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali's 99...

And despite public lobbying by the League of Arab States’ Secretary General Ismat Abdel Meguid and more discreet moves by Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarak and Tunisia’s President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali Gadaffi believes his Arab allies do nothing to counter the economic sanctions imposed on Libya by the United Nations and insisted upon by the United States...

Such electoral management is familiar in Tunisia where President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali shows no sign of relaxing his iron grip...

Close relations with Europe were underlined in early June by President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali's visit to Italy...

This is President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali's record – yet his regime makes Western allies uncomfortable...

Zine el Abidine Ben Ali showed off his self-confidence by spending 20 March the 40th anniversary of Independence being filmed on a visit to Habib Bourguiba the President-for-Life whom he eased out of office...