Taïeb Baccouche | |||||
Native Name: | Arabic: الطيب البكوش | ||||
Native Name Lang: | ar | ||||
Office: | Minister of Foreign Affairs | ||||
Predecessor: | Mongi Hamdi | ||||
President: | Beji Caid Essebsi | ||||
Primeminister: | Habib Essid | ||||
Successor: | Khemaies Jhinaoui | ||||
Office1: | Minister of Education | ||||
Predecessor1: | Hatem Ben Salem | ||||
President1: | Foued Mebazaa (Acting) | ||||
Primeminister1: | Mohamed Ghannouchi Béji Caïd Essebsi | ||||
Successor1: | Samir Dilou | ||||
Birth Name: | Taïeb Baccouche | ||||
Birth Date: | 1 November 1944 | ||||
Birth Place: | Jemmal, Tunisia | ||||
Nationality: | Tunisian | ||||
Occupation: | Linguist, Professor, Syndicalist, Human Rights | ||||
Education: | Licence in Arabic Degree in Old History and Archeology Degree in French Literature and Language PhD in Linguistics degree of Linguistics aggregation in Arabic Baccalaureate | ||||
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Term Start: | 5 February 2015 | ||||
Term End: | 6 January 2016 | ||||
Term Start1: | 17 January 2011 | ||||
Term End1: | 24 December 2011 | ||||
Office3: | Secretary General of UGTT | ||||
Term Start3: | 19 February 1981 | ||||
Term End3: | 17 December 1984 | ||||
Predecessor3: | Habib Achour | ||||
Successor3: | Habib Achour |
Taïeb Baccouche (ar|الطيب البكوش; 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,[1] and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2015[2] [3] [4] to 2016.
Born at Jemmal in 1944, Baccouche travelled to France in 1965 to study at the Sorbonne where he obtained a degree in Linguistics 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.[5]
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, Khemaies Jhinaoui was appointed to succeed him in January 2016.[6] Baccouche was then appointed as Secretary-General of the Arab Maghreb Union on 5 May 2016.[6]