Taïeb Baccouche

Who is Taïeb Baccouche?

Taieb Baccouche is a Tunisian politician who is the current Minister of Education of Tunisia and official spokesperson of the Government of Beji Caid el Sebsi. He became the Tunisian Minister of Education in January 2011.

Baccouche travelled to France in 1965 to study at the Sorbonne where he obtained a degree in Linguistics in 1966 and an aggregation in Arabic in 1968. After that, he returned to Tunis to teach at the University of Tunis. Baccouche was awarded a State Doctorate in Linguistics in 1980 from the University of Paris Sorbonne. He was General Secretary of the Work Tunisian General united formerly known as UGTT from 1981–1984. He was President of the Tunisian Association of Linguistics from 1995–2002 and has been General Secretary of the Mediterranean Linguistics Meetings –RLM and President of the Human Rights' Arab Institute since 1998.