Bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering, Tunis University; Master's in Photovoltaic Engineering, Paris. Engineer, Islamist politician and journalist. Specialist in solar energy and wind power; founded enterprise in Sousse. 1981, involved with, Ennahda (formerly Movement of the Islamic Tendency), a moderate Islamist party in Tunisia; Director and Editor-in-Chief, Al-Fajr (Dawn), the former weekly newspaper of the Islamist Ennahda Party; also longtime member of the party's executive council. Since December 2011, Prime Minister of Tunisia. Secretary-General, Ennahda Movement.