Mehdi Mabrouk is a

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n politician. He served as the Minister of Culture under Prime Minister

Hamadi Jebali Hamadi Jebali ( ar, حمادي الجبالي, '; born 12 January 1949) is a Tunisian engineer, Muslim politician and journalist who was Prime Minister of Tunisia from December 2011 to March 2013. He was the Secretary-General of the Ennahda Move ...

.Ahmed Medien
Mehdi Mabrouk
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Biography

Academic career

He has taught

sociology Sociology is a social science that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of Interpersonal ties, social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life. It uses various methods of Empirical ...

at the

University of Tunis Tunis University ( ar, جامعة تونس, french: link=no, Université de Tunis) is a university in Tunis, Tunisia. It was founded in 1960 on the basis of earlier educational establishments. The University of Tunis is a member of the Mediterr ...

, with lectures on

illegal immigration Illegal immigration is the migration of people into a country in violation of the immigration laws of that country or the continued residence without the legal right to live in that country. Illegal immigration tends to be financially upwar ...

and youth issues.Siobhan Dowling
Taking care of Libyan refugees strains generosity of Tunisians
''

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'', 15 June 2011 He has also been a scholar at the Tunisian Center of Economic and Social Studies. In June 2011, he said Tunisia was ill-equipped to handle the wave of immigration from

Libya Libya (; ar, ليبيا, Lībiyā), officially the State of Libya ( ar, دولة ليبيا, Dawlat Lībiyā), is a country in the Maghreb region in North Africa. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to Egypt–Libya bo ...

. Mabrouk is also the Chief of the Tunis Office of the

Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies The Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies (can also be referred to by its acronyms as the ACRPS) is an Arab research institute with particular interest in the social sciences, applied social sciences, regional history and geostrategic affair ...

, and regularly speaks at some of its conferences.

Minister

On 20 December 2011, after former President

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 ...

was deposed, he joined the

Jebali Cabinet The first cabinet of Tunisian Head of Government Hamadi Jebali was presented on 20 December 2011. Jebali has been appointed by interim President Moncef Marzouki, who had been elected by the National Constituent Assembly, a body constituted to dr ...

as Minister of Culture. He has spoken at the

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.Istanbul World Political Forum

Bibliography

*''Voile et sel: culture, foyers et organisation de la migration clandestine en Tunisie'' (2010)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Mabrouk, Mehdi Living people Tunisian sociologists Academic staff of Tunis University Government ministers of Tunisia Year of birth missing (living people)