Habib Boularès

Habib Boularès (Arabic: الحبيب بولعراس) (29 July 1933 – 18 April 2014) was a Tunisian diplomat and politician.

[1] He first entered the cabinet in 1970 as Minister of Culture and Information, serving in that post until 1971.

He served as Secretary-General of the Arab-Maghreb Union from 2002 to 2006, and was succeeded by Habib Ben Yahia.

[2] Boularès died on April 18, 2014, in Paris at the age 80, following a long illness.

[3] His funeral took place on April 23 at the Sidi Abdelaziz cemetery in La Marsa.