Ahmed Brahim facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Ahmed Brahim أحمد إبراهيم
Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research
In office 17 January 2011 – 7 March 2011
President	Fouad Mebazaa (Acting)
Preceded by	Béchir Tekkari
Succeeded by	Refâat Chaâbouni
Personal details
Born	(1946-06-14)14 June 1946
Died	14 April 2016(2016-04-14) (aged 69)
Political party	Social Democratic Path (since 2012) Ettajdid Movement (1993–2012) Tunisian Communist Party (before 1993)
Education	Tunis University

Ahmed Brahim (Arabic: أحمد إبراهيم, ʾAḥmad Ibrāhīm; 14 June 1946 – 14 April 2016) was a Tunisian politician. He was the First Secretary of Ettajdid Movement and the leader of the Democratic Modernist Pole until April 2012, when his party merged into the Social Democratic Path of which he became the president. He was the Ettajdid Movement's candidate for President of Tunisia in the 2009 presidential election. He was a professor of French at the University of Tunis; his area of study was comparative linguistics.