Mezri Haddad

Quick Facts

Full Name	Mezri Haddad
Occupation	Journalist
Date Of Birth	Jul 2, 1961(1961-07-02)
Age	63
Birthplace	Le Kram
Country	Tunisia
Birth City	Tunis Governorate
Horoscope	Cancer

Mezri Haddad Biography

Mezri Haddad is one of the most popular and richest Journalist who was born on July 2, 1961 in Le Kram, Tunis Governorate, Tunisia. Mezri Haddad, a Tunisian journalist and writer, philosopher, diplomat was born in Le Kram, 2 July 1961. Haddad was a professor of moral and political philosophy at Paris-Sorbonne University and was the first Muslim candidate to become a lecturer on Catholic theology by the National Council of French Universities. His essays are primarily focused on religion and politics (Islam and Christianity).

Mezri Haddad disassociated himself early on from President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali’s regime. He criticized the regime of Habib Borguiba’s unanimity and personality cult in 1989. He was among the few intellectuals who challenged the authoritarian tendencies of the Tunisian regime’s press between 1989 and 1991. He demanded dialogue with the opposition and respect for human rights, as well as the opening of democracy. He continued his struggle in the daily Liberation, even though he was forbidden to speak in Tunisia. It was the only newspaper that carried his articles at the time.

In 1990 Haddad obtained his Master of Advanced Studies degree on the theme of “Historical materialism and class struggles in Karl Marx.” The same year he started his thesis for a doctorate in moral and political philosophy under the direction of Claude Polin. “The issue of the relationship between spiritual authority and temporal power in Islam and in Christianity” was the topic of his 982-page theses which he defended in 1997. According to the jury, by its comparative and multidisciplinary approach Haddad shows that political theology is the biggest problem of all religions and all cultures. The “theocratic disease” is therefore not specifically Islamic. According to Mohammed Arkoun, “by its resolutely comparative and heuristic approach” Mezri Haddad’s thesis “is a first in the field of comparative studies of Islam studies and theology that revives the high tradition of philosophical orientalism”.

After his first efforts in the press of the Destour Socialist Party, and once installed in France, for a long time he was permanent correspondent of the Tunisian magazine Realities. He became editor and columnist until his resignation in 1992 for restrictions on his freedom of expression. He nevertheless continued his fight in the French press and in 1992 signed his first article in Libération about the “Couscous connection”. According to the Canadian writer Lise Garon, “Haddad is probably the only Tunisian to have signed an article about the involvement of the president’s brother in international drug trafficking.” Also according to Lise Garon, “Haddad, who signs his articles in European newspapers with his real name, remains an exceptional case. In general Tunisian newspapers have sided with the general- president.”

Haddad, in an interview with Le Soir, 1997, decried the paranoia, “almost psychotic susceptibility” and fundamentalist threat of the regime and stressed the peaceful and democratic ways to combat them. Haddad also called for the return to the spirit of the Declaration of 7/11/87, “subject that the prince’s evil counselors leave the palace of Carthage.” Mezri haddad and President Ben Ali were rapproched by two influential men: Mohamed Masmoudi (ex-Foreign Minister during the Bourguiba era) and Bechir Ben Yahmed (head of Jeune Afrique). The latter tried to convince Haddad to leave exile and return home to Tunisia from 1998, but Haddad didn’t return home until April 2000, just a few days after the death of Bourguiba. The president was then invited to meet him and he demanded a general amnesty as well as the return of political exiles from Tunisia, including Ahmed Ben Salah or Mzali.

Mezri Haddad Net Worth

Mezri Haddad is one of the richest Journalist from Tunisia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Mezri Haddad 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Mezri Haddad, who had completed secondary school at La Goulette high school, became a journalist in 1979. His first article was “A very angry Tunisian young man” in La Presse de Tunisie. He signed his second article in Jeune Afrique, “The Wassila Effect”, three years later. He criticized the first lady from Tunisia, who was at that time untouchable. He was arrested and later pardoned. He began his career as a journalist in the official press, with a short passage in the journal Dialogue, then the daily L’Action tunisienne. From which he was fired due to incompatibility of the newspaper’s spirit, which is the official organ the Socialist Destourian Party.

Haddad obtained a position with the cultural and artistic magazine of Etablissement de la Radiodiffusion-Television Tunisienne but resigned in January 1984 during the Tunisian bread riots and left Tunisia for France. Three years later, he wrote in Le Temps about his feeling that he didn’t have a future in Tunisia. He went to the Sorbonne to study philosophy. Mezri Haddad was a long-time opponent of the Bourguiba system. He expressed reservations about its nature in 1987, when President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali took power.

Between 1989 and 1993 Haddad served as assistant to Professor Jacqueline Brisset at Panthéon-Assas University – Paris II in philosophy of law and the history of political ideas. From 1991 to 1992 Pierre Aubenque, a specialist in Aristotle, employed him as a researcher at the Center for Research on Ancient Thought, a laboratory associated with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS).

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After the revolution, Mezri Hadadd again chose exile in France, where he continued to lead his fight “for a sovereign, democratic and secular Tunisia” and to fight against the ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood and against Wahhabism, both in Arab countries and in France. He was sued and won a lawsuit against Al Jazeera. The most objective article on the thinking and path of Mezri Haddad remains that the Algerian intellectual Noureddine Dziri published in Jeune Afrique on 5 January 2004 under the title “Mezri Haddad or the dilemma of the scientist and politics”.

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Mezri Ranked on the list of most popular Journalist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Tunisia. Mezri Haddad celebrates birthday on July 2 of every year.

He regularly contributes to the press in France (Le Figaro, Libération and Le Monde), Belgium (Le Soir) and Switzerland (Tribune de Genève) and has made several appearances on France 24, LCI, Public Sénat, France Ô and France 2. He was also, from 2007 to 2009, co-director of the Daedalos Institute of Geopolitics, a think tank based in Nicosia created at the initiative of the Cypriot Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In late 2009 he was appointed ambassador to UNESCO, a post he resigned in January 2011 before the fall of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.