Name of Object:

Abdelaziz Thâalbi (Abdelaziz al-Thalibi)

Location:

La Manouba, Tunis, Tunisia

Holding Institution:

Institut Supérieur d’Histoire Contemporaine de la Tunisie

 About Higher Institute for the Study of Contemporary History of Tunisia, University of Manouba, La Manouba, Tunis

Date of Object:

Early 20th century

Material(s) / Technique(s):

Paper

Description:

Born in Tunis in 1876, Abdelaziz Thâalbi (Abdelaziz al-Thalibi) was a Tunisian politician. In 1920, he became the founder of the political party Destour, and participated in all the first fights of the nationalist movement. This activism caused him to be sent into exile in 1912, not for the first time, with six other nationalist politicians. In 1920 he wrote and published the manifesto La Tunisie Martyre with Ahmed Sakka, for which he was arrested on 31 July and taken to Tunis. However, feeling threatened there, he fled and left Tunisia once again in 1923. Destourian militants in Tunisia kept calling for his return, which finally happened in July 1937, 14 years after being forced into exile. However, upon his return he entered into conflict with Neo-Destour politicians, led by Bourguiba. He died on 1 October 1944, and his funeral was an opportunity for the Neo-Destour movement, as well as all the fringes of the nationalist movement to gather, and pay tribute to one of the founding fathers of Tunisian nationalism

Type of Object

Photograph

Citation of this web page:

Bechir Yazidi "Abdelaziz Thâalbi (Abdelaziz al-Thalibi)" in "Sharing History", Museum With No Frontiers, 2026.
https://sharinghistory.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;awe;tn;63;en

Prepared by: Bechir Yazidi
Translation by: Flaminia Baldwin

MWNF Working Number: TN 063