| Ahmed Ibrahim أحمد إبراهيم |
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| Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research | |
| In office 17 January 2011 – 7 March 2011 |
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| President | Fouad Mebazaa (Acting) |
| Preceded by | Béchir Tekkari |
| Succeeded by | Refâat Chaâbouni |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 19 June 1947 |
| Political party | Ettajdid Movement |
| Religion | Sunni Islam |
Ahmed Ibrahim (Arabic: أحمد إبراهيم, ʾAḥmad Ibrāhīm; born 19 June 1947) also known as Ahmed Brahim, is a Tunisian politician. He is the First Secretary of Ettajdid Movement and the leader of the Democratic Modernist Pole. He was the party's candidate for President of Tunisia in the 2009 presidential election. A linguist by profession, he is a retired professor of French at the University of Tunis; his area of study was comparative linguistics.[1]
After the fall of Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, he was appointed by the new government as the Minister of Higher Education and left the post on 7 March.[2]
Ibrahim is in favor of the emergence of a "democratic modern and secular [laicist] state" not connected with Islamists. According to Ibrahim, this would require "radical" reform of the electoral system, which would improve the political climate in guaranteeing freedom of assembly and a large scale independent press, as well as repealing a law that regulated public discourse of electoral candidates.[3]