He was born the 6th of February 1934 in Maktar and died the 26th of July 2013.
[citation needed] He studied in a madrasa and applied the University of Ez-Zitouna in Tunis ; he became a lawyer in 1957.
He left Tunisia in 1961 and moved to Algeria, where he was one of Ahmed Ben Bella's close friends.
[2] As a leftist thinker he took part to the debate on secularism in Muslim countries.
As a journalist he worked for several newspapers : Al-Hayat, Al-Quds Al-Arabi and more recently for the online magazine Elaph.