Habib Kazdaghli

Habib Kazdaghli is a Tunisian historian and academic specializing in contemporary history. He was the dean of the Faculty of Letters of Manouba in Tunis between 2011 and 2017. During his tenure, he became one of the symbols of the fight against the niqab in universities by opposing the provocations of several Islamist students. A showdown won in 2013, during a high-profile trial, by the dean. As an academic, Habib Kazdaghli devoted part of his work to the place of Jews in the Tunisian consciousness.