ecame the main opposition party. What happened when you founded the party? They threw me in prison in 1981 and sentenced me to 11 years. President Habib Bourguiba thought I insulted him and his government, and [that I] encouraged people to revolt. I spent four years in prison and was released and continued my

nationalism. The second awakening came in the 1950s and gathered force in the decade following. This was the era of Gamal Abdel Nasser in Egypt, Habib Bourguiba in Tunisia, and the early leaders of EFTA_R1_00234078 EFTA01845132 the Baath Party in Iraq and Syria. No democrats, the leaders of that time wer