Background
Chedli Klibi was born on September 6, 1925, at Tunis.
politician and international official
Chedli Klibi was born on September 6, 1925, at Tunis.
Educated at the select Sadiki College. Went to Paris in 1945 to study Philosophy and Arabic Literature at the Sorbonne.
He began in journalism in 1951, writing in the literary section of “F.s Sabah”. Next he worked on the Arab literary review “An Nadwa”. Then in 1955 he was made editor of the trade union journal “Sawt el Amal”. He wrote commentaries for “L’Action” and later became a political columnist on the Neo-Destour weekly journal "A1 Amal”.
In 1957 he became Professor of Arabic at the Lycce Carnot in Tunis and then moved to the Ecole Normale Supérieure where he specialised in Sociology. He left academic life in May 1958 to head the State Radio. In October 1961 President Bourguiba appointed him Secretary of State for Cultural Affairs and Information.
At the Destour Socialist Party Congress in October 1964 at Bizerta he was appointed to the Central Committee and two months later he was elected to the National Assembly. He became Mayor of Carthage and a member of the Council of the Republic. On January 22, 1968, he was made a member of the Political Bureau. He kept his ministerial post at the cabinet reshuffle on October 29, 1971.
Political Bureau and Central Committee, Neo Destour (Parti Socialiste Destourien) June. Cairo Arabic Language Academy.
Writer, political columnist and editor, highly regarded by President Bourguiba, who gave him his first appointment as Director of the State Radio in 1961. Rarely seen without dark glasses, he seems reserved and aloof; yet to his close colleagues he has the warmth of intense enthusiasm and involvement in a wide range of political issues. An influential member of the Destour Socialist Party’s Central Committee, he is a man whose views carry considerable weight in the Political Bureau.
Married Kalthoum Lasram in 1956.