Abdelhamid Slama (23 October 1941 – 31 January 2025) was a Tunisian politician. He was Minister of Sport, Youth, and Physical Education.

Life and career

Abdelhamid Slama was born on 23 October 1941 in Ksibet El Mediouni,

Tunisia Tunisia, officially the Republic of Tunisia, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered by Algeria to the west and southwest, Libya to the southeast, and the Mediterranean Sea to the north and east. Tunisia also shares m ...

. He held a PhD in

Arabic literature Arabic literature ( / ALA-LC: ''al-Adab al-‘Arabī'') is the writing, both as prose and poetry, produced by writers in the Arabic language. The Arabic word used for literature is ''Adab (Islam), Adab'', which comes from a meaning of etiquett ...

. Slama taught in

Sousse Sousse, Sūsah , or Soussa (, ), is a city in Tunisia, capital of the Sousse Governorate. Located south of the capital Tunis, the city has 271,428 inhabitants (2014). Sousse is in the central-east of the country, on the Gulf of Hammamet, which ...

and in

Tunis Tunis (, ') is the capital city, capital and largest city of Tunisia. The greater metropolitan area of Tunis, often referred to as "Grand Tunis", has about 2,700,000 inhabitants. , it is the third-largest city in the Maghreb region (after Casabl ...

, then worked for the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Youth and Sports, and the Ministry of Information. He was also a board member of the

Constitutional Democratic Rally The Democratic Constitutional Rally or Democratic Constitutional Assembly ( ', , sometimes also called Constitutional Democratic Rally in English), also referred to by its French initials RCD, was a political party in Tunisia. Including its pred ...

. Slama died on 31 January 2025, at the age of 83.Décès de l'ex-ministre des Sports Abdelhamid Slama

References

1941 births 2025 deaths Youth and sports ministers of Tunisia Education ministers of Tunisia Information ministers of Tunisia Democratic Constitutional Rally politicians {{Tunisia-politician-stub