Leïla Ben Ali
Leïla Ben Ali( née Trabelssi; born 24 October 1956) is the widow of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, who was President of Tunisia from 1987 to 2011.
She married Ben Ali in 1992.
Leïla Ben Ali was the president of the Arab Women Organization and chair of the Basma Association, a charitable organization working to secure employment for the disabled.
In July 2010, Mrs. Ben Ali founded SAIDA to improve care for cancer patients in Tunisia.
During the Tunisian revolution in 2010 – 11, she fled with her husband and three children into exile in Saudi Arabia.
During her time as First Lady of Tunisia, she is believed to have enriched herself and her family through gross corruption and embezzlement of state money to finance a lavish lifestyle, factors which contributed to the protests against the regime of Ben Ali at the end of 2010.
She is currently wanted by Interpol on behest of the Tunisian judiciary for high treason and money laundering.
Ibrahim Ben Ali
Ibrahim Ben Ali was a soldier, physician and one of the earliest American settlers of Ottoman origin.
Ben Ali was born in Turkey in 1756, he served in the Turkish army as a doctor.
Following his release from capture during the Russo- Turkish War, he eventually emigrated to the United States to practice as a physician.
He contracted yellow fever during an outbreak and died in 1800.
He was the grandfather of lawyer and investor James Ben Ali Haggin.
Etan Boritzer
Etan Boritzer( born 1950) is an American writer of children ’s literature who is best known for his book" What is God?" first published in 1989.
His best selling" What is?" illustrated children's book series on character education and difficult subjects for children is a popular teaching guide for parents, teachers and child- life professionals.
Boritzer gained national critical acclaim after" What is God?" was published in 1989 although the book has caused controversy from religious fundamentalists for its universalist views.
The other current books in the" What is?" series include
What is Love?,
What is Death?,
What is Beautiful?,
What is Funny?,
What is Right?,
What is Peace?,
What is Money?,
What is Dreaming?,
What is a Friend?,
What is True?,
What is a Family?,
What is a Feeling?"
The series is now also translated into 15 languages.
Boritzer was first published in 1963 at the age of 13 when he wrote an essay in his English class at Wade Junior High School in the Bronx, New York on the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
His essay was included in a special anthology by New York City public school children compiled and published by the New York City Department of Education.
Boritzer now lives in Venice, California and maintains his publishing office there also.
He has helped numerous other authors to get published through" How to Get Your Book Published!" programs.
Boritzer is also a yoga teacher who teaches regular classes locally and guest- teaches nationally.
He is also recognized nationally as an erudite speaker on" The Teachings of the Buddha."
Theodred II (Bishop of Elmham)
Theodred II was a medieval Bishop of Elmham.
The date of Theodred's consecration unknown, but the date of his death was sometime between 995 and 997.
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali ('; 3 September 1936 – 19 September 2019), commonly known as Ben Ali, was a Tunisian politician and President of Tunisia from 1987 until his fall in 2011.
Ben Ali was appointed Prime Minister in October 1987.
He assumed the Presidency on 7 November 1987 in a bloodless coup d'état that ousted President Habib Bourguiba by declaring him incompetent.
Ben Ali was subsequently reelected with enormous majorities, each time exceeding 90% of the vote; his final re-election coming on 25 October 2009.
On 14 January 2011, following a month of protests against his rule, he was forced to flee to Saudi Arabia along with his wife Leïla Ben Ali and their three children.
The interim Tunisian government asked Interpol to issue an international arrest warrant, charging him with money laundering and drug trafficking.
A Tunisian court sentenced Ben Ali and his wife "in absentia" to 35 years in prison on 20 June 2011 on charges of theft and unlawful possession of cash and jewellery, of which were put up for auction.
In June 2012, a Tunisian court sentenced him "in absentia" to life imprisonment for inciting violence and murder and another life sentence by a military court on April 2013 for violent repression of protests in Sfax.
He served none of those sentences, subsequently passing away in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia after nearly a decade.
Belhassen Trabelsi
Belhassen Trabelsi is a Tunisian businessman.
He is the brother of Leïla Ben Ali, wife of former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
Naïma Ben Ali
Naïma Ben Ali , is the former First Lady of Tunisia and the first wife of former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
She served as First Lady from 1987 until her divorce from Ben Ali in 1988.
Tarak Mekki
Tarak Mekki (طارق المكي 27 June 1958 – 31 December 2012) was a Tunisian businessman and political figure.
He declared himself as an opponent to the president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and a candidate to his succession.
Mekki was one of the few political opponents calling for an immediate end to the Ben Ali regime, and his prosecution for corruption and torture.
Mekki was born in Tunis.
he embraced many of Tunisia's first president Habib Bourguiba's foreign policies which called for a pragmatic solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and closer ties with Western countries.
He presented himself as moderate and quickly distanced himself from other political opponents including Islamists.
After 12 June 2007, Mekki posted his speeches online revealing the foundation of his presidential programme.
He called for the birth of a "Second Tunisian republic" where rights would be guaranteed to all Tunisians.
According to him, this was the only alternative to the then existing regime.
Mekki claimed that women had been wearing veils as a mean of silent political protests rather than true religious conviction.
Mekki proposed to fight the "real" roots of Islamic Terrorism and blamed President Ben Ali's policies for the rise of extremists.
This could also just have been a ploy to gain support in the West, as Ben Ali had similarly proclaimed to be fighting terrorism.
Mekki's team produced a series of political comic sketches called "Mille et une nuits" (engl. "
One Thousand and One Nights or Elf Leila w Leila") in which he ridiculed President Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali, his wife Leila Trabelsi-Ben Ali, and the Trabelsi family – the name of the sketches themselves a jab at the president's wife.
From 8 June 2008, his speeches were broadcast online on various websites including YouTube and Dailymotion as well as via satellite on Nilesat every Monday evening in Tunisia.
Mekki died, aged 54, in Hammamet.
Slim Chiboub
Slim Chiboub is a Tunisian businessman.
He is married to Dorsaf Ben Ali, the oldest daughter of former Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and his first wife, Naïma Kefi.
He claims he has not seen Ben Ali since the latter married Leïla Ben Ali.
Rafiq Belhaj Kacem
Rafiq Belhaj Kacem is a Tunisian politician.
He was the Minister of the Interior under former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
During the 2010–2011 Tunisian protests, he was fired by former President Ben Ali.

Question: When was Naïma Ben Ali's husband born?
Answer: 3 September 1936