Ali Bach Hamba

Ali Bach Hamba (1876 - 29 October 1918) was a Tunisian lawyer, journalist and politician.

[3] He studied at the Sadiki College prior to achieving a master's and then a doctorate in law at the Aix-Marseille University.

In 1909 they were joined by Abdelaziz Thâalbi, and the movement acquired a religious as well as a constitutional character, with an Arabic as well as a French edition of "Le Tunisien".

The government declared there had been a political plot and exiled Bach Hamba and Thaalbi.

This popular protest and the workers’ demands was the first clear manifestation of a Tunisian national consciousness.