Taïeb Baccouche (born 1 November 1944) is a Tunisian politician who has been Secretary-General of the Arab Maghreb Union since 2016. Previously he served in the government of Tunisia as Minister of Education in 2011, in the wake of the Tunisian Revolution, and

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from 2015 to 2016.

Life and career

Born at Jemmal in 1944, Baccouche travelled to France in 1965 to study at the Sorbonne where he obtained a degree in

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in 1966 and an aggregation in Arabic in 1968. After that, he returned to Tunis to teach at the University of Tunis. Baccouche was awarded a State Doctorate in Linguistics in 1980 from the University of Paris Sorbonne. He was General Secretary of the Tunisian General Labour Union (UGTT) from 1981 to 1984. He was President of the Tunisian Association of Linguistics from 1995 to 2002 and has been General Secretary of the Mediterranean Linguistics Meetings –RLM and President of the Human Rights Arab Institute since 1998. After the Tunisian Revolution, he served in the government as Minister of Education from January 2011 to December 2011. Later, he was appointed as Minister of Foreign Affairs in January 2015. After less than a year in that post,

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was appointed to succeed him in January 2016. Baccouche was then appointed as Secretary-General of the Arab Maghreb Union on 5 May 2016."Taieb Baccouche appointed Secretary General of the Arab Maghreb Union"
Tunisia-tn.com, 5 May 2016.

Honours

Order of the Republic (Tunisia) - ribbon bar

Commandeur of the Order of the Republic of

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(23 November 2011)

References

1944 births Living people People from Kairouan Government ministers of Tunisia Tunisian Muslims People of the Tunisian Revolution Tunisian educators Syndicalists University of Paris alumni Academic staff of Tunis University Nidaa Tounes politicians Foreign ministers of Tunisia Linguists from Tunisia Tunisian expatriates in France {{Tunisia-politician-stub