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2 unusual facts about Ben Ali


Ben Ali

Zine El Abidine Ben Ali (born 1936), former President of Tunisia, 1987–2011

Ibrahim Ben Ali (1756–?), soldier and physician who was one of the earliest American settlers of Turkish origin


Bettino Craxi

Craxi escaped the laws he had once contributed to make, by fleeing to Hammamet, Tunisia, in 1994, and remained a fugitive there, protected by Ben Ali's government.

Number of guns per capita by country

The lowest gun ownership rate among the 178 countries surveyed as of 2007 was reported from Tunisia, with 0.1 (or a total number of 9,000 guns), due to very strict gun control under the Ben Ali regime (compare the rates of the neighboring states, Algeria: 7.6, Libya: 15.5).


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Bilali Document

Past writers, including Reverend Dwight York (aka Imam Isa) who claimed he was his great-grandfather, have conflated Bilali Muhammad (aka Ben Ali, BuAllah, Bilali Smith, and Mahomet Bilali) with individuals with similar names.

El Général

After the overthrow of Ben Ali, his songs enjoyed enormous popularity in Tunisia, particularly "Rais Lebled" which became known as the anthem of the revolution and gained him international recognition.

Habib Bourguiba

Ben Ali himself was overthrown in 2011 in the first of the Arab Spring uprisings.

James Ben Ali Haggin

Haggin was the eldest of eight children of Terah Temple and Adeline (Ben Ali) Haggin, the daughter of Ibrahim Ben Ali, a Turkish army officer.

Muhammed al-Ahari

When Muhammed returned to Chicago in 1990, he attended the American Islamic College for two additional years and restarted his Magribine Press with an edited edition of Muhammed Alexander Rusell Webb's Islam in America (1993), an edited edition of Shaykh Daoud's al-Islam, the True Faith of Humanity (2003), and his translation of the Fiqh text called the Ben Ali Diary or the Bilali Document written by Bilali Muhammad of Sapelo Island, Georgia.

Sadok Chaabane

He told many of his academic friends who were political scientists and economists that Zine Al Abidine Ben Ali has now become the man of the moment, and that he would in due course become the head of state, which happened one year later.

Sidi Aissa Ben Ali

Sidi Aissa Ben Ali is a town and rural commune in Béni Mellal Province of the Tadla-Azilal region of Morocco.

Tunisian collaborative painting

The Jasmine Revolution ended a month later on January 10, 2011 when Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, the ruler of Tunisia for 23 years, fled the country.