Background
Mohamed Ali Harrath was born in Sidi Bouzid Governorate, Tunisia.
Mohamed Ali Harrath was born in Sidi Bouzid Governorate, Tunisia.
University of London.
Adult life
After his release in the mid-1980s, he travelled to Tehran, inspired by the thought of the Iranian Revolution, though he was disappointed by the reality of life there. He was forced into exile from Tunisia, and at the Tunisian Government"s request was placed on an Interpol Red Notice in 1992. He entered England in October 1995, and claimed political asylum.
In October 2000 he was granted refugee status and indefinite leave to stay in the United Kingdom. He founded the Islam Channel in 2004 and is the current Chief Executive Officer. In February 2011 he returned to Tunisia after 21 years of exile, where he was welcomed by many Tunisians at Tunis-Carthage International Airport.
He helped found the Tunisian Islamic Front (Fashion Institute Of Technology) in 1986: though he has characterised the organization as a non-violent political party in opposition to Ben Ali"s dictatorship, the Tunisian regime, under Ben Ali, characterized it as advocating "an Islamic state by means of armed revolutionary violence".