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''La Presse'', founded in 1934, is a large-circulation
''La Presse de Tunisie''
{{DEFAULTSORT:Presse de Tunisie French-language newspapers published in Tunisia Publications established in 1934 Mass media in Tunis 1934 establishments in Tunisia
''La Presse'', founded in 1934, is a large-circulation French-language
French ( or ) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family. It descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire, as did all Romance languages. French evolved from Gallo-Romance, the Latin spoken in Gaul, and more specifically in Nor ...
daily newspaper published in Tunis
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History
''La Presse de Tunisie'' was founded in 1934 by Henri Smadja, a Tunisian and French Jewish doctor and lawyer, born in Tunisia, who went on to become the owner of the daily newspaper ''Combat
Combat ( French for ''fight'') is a purposeful violent conflict meant to physically harm or kill the opposition. Combat may be armed (using weapons) or unarmed ( not using weapons). Combat is sometimes resorted to as a method of self-defense, or ...
''. The paper, based in Tunis
''Tounsi'' french: Tunisois
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, was close to the Constitutional Democratic Rally
The Democratic Constitutional Rally or Democratic Constitutional Assembly ( ar, التجمع الدستوري الديمقراطي ', french: Rassemblement Constitutionnel Démocratique, sometimes also called Constitutional Democratic Rally in E ...
. Its sister paper is Arabic newspaper ''Assahafah''. Before the 2010-2011 Tunisian protests ''La Presse de Tunisie'' was published by a state-owned publishing company.
As a result of these protests, the newspaper transformed from being seen as propaganda for Zine El Abidine Ben Ali
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali ( ar, زين العابدين بن علي, translit=Zayn al-'Ābidīn bin 'Alī; 3 September 1936 – 19 September 2019), commonly known as Ben Ali ( ar, بن علي) or Ezzine ( ar, الزين), was a Tunisian politician ...
's government to having editorial independence from the government. However, the owner of the daily is the government of Tunisia
The politics of Tunisia takes place within the framework of a unitary semi-presidential representative democratic republic, with a President serving as head of state, Prime Minister as head of government, a unicameral legislature and a court s ...
, more specifically the state-owned company SNIPE.
In addition, the president of the paper, Mohammad Nejib Ouerghi, worked for state-owned newspapers before the deportion of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
See also
* List of newspapers in TunisiaReferences
External links
*''La Presse de Tunisie''
{{DEFAULTSORT:Presse de Tunisie French-language newspapers published in Tunisia Publications established in 1934 Mass media in Tunis 1934 establishments in Tunisia