Mohammed Mzali (Arabic: محمد مزالي, 23 December 1925 – 23 June 2010) was a Tunisian politician who served as prime minister between 1980 and 1986.

Their Ait Mzal ancestor settled in Tunisia after coming back from the Hajj in the late 17th century.

[1] Mzali studied at Sadiki College in Tunis and at the Faculty of Humanities at Sorbonne University in Paris.

He held a series of government posts starting in the late 1950s that would eventually culminate in his becoming prime minister in the early 1980s.

[4][2] He was interested in Tunisia pursuing a closer international relationship with Gulf countries such as Saudi Arabia.

[10] In an attempt to recover his popularity, Mzali toured the provinces after the riots, promising projects to create new jobs.