Education
He began his primary education at Al-Amal school in the year of Tunisia’s independence, 1956, then went on to secondary schooling at 15- November lycée. He obtained the baccalauréat degree at the age of 17 with the highest distinction, the President Habib Bourguiba Prize, awarded on 30 June 1967. On that occasion a family member extended the material help needed to travel to the capital to collect the award.
Despite advice to follow scientific disciplines at the University, he preferred to pursue legal studies.
He enrolled at Tunis Faculty Law (University Campus) in October 1967 and obtained his BA in Public Law in June 1971 as well as the Higher Diploma in Political Science in 1972 and the Higher Diploma in Public Law in 1973.
The Dean selected him for a teaching assistantship position in October 1972, when he was yet 22 years of age, and above all urged him particularly to prepare the Doctorat d’Etat.
On 15 December 1975, at 25, he received his Doctorat d’Etat in Public Law and Political Science. It was the first degree of its kind to have been awarded by Tunis University; and the dissertation debates were attended by the Minister of Education and many political personalities and scholars both from Tunisia and France.
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