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Tunisia-Habib Nouira dies

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs declared the passing of ambassador, writer and historian Habib Nouira, at the age of 97 in Monastir, his hometown.

Born on June 3, 1925, he was the younger brother of Prime Minister Hedi Nouira. Habib Nouira started his life of study in  Monastir at the Koranic school then at the Arab-French school before entering the Zitouna mosque, where he received a degree in history in 1950. He has held multiple positions and climbed the diplomatic ladder from the clerk of foreign affairs at the Tunisian embassy in Tripoli, then Rabat, then charge d’affaires at the Tunisian embassy in Baghdad, then in Cairo.

He then acted as Tunisian Ambassador to Iraq, Kuwait, Syria and Egypt. The late likewise spent his retirement period in Monastir, his hometown, where he partook in cultural activities and in the Association of Retired Persons.

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