Bahri Guiga (March 4, 1904 - September 2, 1995) was a Tunisian

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and

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Biography

Originating in the Berber village of Takrouna, he studied in Lycée Carnot de Tunis along with

Habib Bourguiba Habib Bourguiba (3 August 19036 April 2000) was a Tunisian politician and statesman who served as the Head of Government of Tunisia, prime minister of the Kingdom of Tunisia from 1956 to 1957, and then as the first president of Tunisia from 1 ...

who was his best friend. He pursued his law studies in Paris Law School. His doctoral thesis is titled as "The evolution of sharaa and its judicial enforcement in Tunisia". In 1928, he obtained his

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diploma, in the public finance section. In 1932, he was one of the founders of '' L'Action Tunisienne'' newspaper along with

, Tahar Sfar and

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., In 1934, he organized with ''L'Action'' team the Ksar Hellal Congress which ended with the creation of the

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party, on March 2, 1934. Therefore, he became treasurer in the first political office, the leadership organ of the party. From 1971 to 1979, he was a member of the

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(ICJ). Son of Hamouda Guiga, Bahri Guiga was the nephew of the writer Abderrahman Guiga and the uncle of Tahar Guiga, author of numerous novels in Arabic and Driss Guiga, Tunisian minister of health then education and interior, who will join his lawyer cabinet. Neodestour 1934.jpg, The founding members of the Neo Destour. Neo_destour-edit.jpg, First Neo Destour leadership.

Footnotes and References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Guiga, Bahri 1904 births 1995 deaths 20th-century Tunisian lawyers Tunisian Berber politicians