Ennahda Movement
He joined the Ennahda Movement in 1977. He was jailed from February to September 1987 under President Habib Bourguiba. He then worked as a lawyer in Tunis. In 1988, he praised then-President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. In 2006, he wrote an article for "Nawaat" against the American-Israeli policy towards the Palestinian territories.