Zine El Abidine Ben Ali ( Arabic : زين العابدين بن علي , Zīn al - ' Ābidīn bin ` Alī ; born 3 September 1936 ) was the second President of Tunisia from 1987 to 2011 .
Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali ( born September 9 , 1936 ) was the second president of Tunisia from 1987 to 2011 .