 He has also acted in the capacity of Jury Chairman of various government programs including the Abu Dhabi Award for Excellence in Government Performance, Dubai Government Excellence Program and Sheikh Khalifa Government Excellence Program.Zairi was born on 17 September 1956, the ﬁfth of ten children and raised in a small Algerian town of El Kouif, 4 km from The Tunisian Border.His father worked in a phosphate mine all his life.