What is Zine El Abidine Ben Ali?
{{Infobox President | name=Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali |image = Zine El Abidine Ben Ali (cropped).jpg |office = [[List of Presidents of Tunisia|2nd]] [[President of Tunisia]] |primeminister = [[Hédi Baccouche]]<br />[[Hamed Karoui]]<br />[[Mohamed Ghannouchi]] |term_start = 7 November 1987 |term_end = 15 January 2011<br />{{small|(Acting to 2 April 1989)}} |predecessor = [[Habib Bourguiba]] |successor = [[Fouad Mebazaa]] {{small|(Interim)}} |office2 = [[Prime Minister of Tunisia]] |president2 = [[Habib Bourguiba]] |term_start2 = 2 October 1987 |term_end2 = 7 November 1987 |predecessor2 = [[Rachid Sfar]] |successor2 = [[Hédi Baccouche]] |blank2 = Full name |data2 = Zine El Abidine Ben Haj Hamda Ben Haj Hassen Ben Ali | death_date= {{death date and age|2019|9|19|1936|9|3}} | death_place=[[Jeddah]], [[Saudi Arabia]] | birth_date={{birth date|1936|09|3}} | birth_place=[[Hammam Sousse]], [[French Tunisia]] | party=[[Democratic Constitutional Rally]] | spouse=[[Leila Ben Ali]] }} '''Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali''' (September 3, 1936 &ndash; September 19, 2019) was the second [[President of Tunisia]] from 1987 to 2011. On January 14, 2011, he was forced to leave Tunisia and go to [[Saudi Arabia]] with his wife Leïla Ben Ali and their three children after a month of protests against his rule. The [[Arab Spring]] started in [[Tunisia]]. ==Birth== Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali was born in [[Hammam Sousse]] on September 3, 1936. ==Work before Presidency== He was assigned to manage (direct and take care) the Defense Military Security in 1964, and worked there until 1974. He was then promoted (his grade was changed to a superior one) to director-general of National Security at the Ministry of Interior in 1977. After that, he was assigned to take care of relations between Tunisia and the [[Morocco|Kingdom of Morocco]]. After being the [[ambassador]] of Tunisia in [[Poland]], he returned to National Security. Right before becoming the President of Tunisian Republic, Zine El-Abidine Ben A