Mohsen Marzouk
محسن مرزوق
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Born	July 1965 Sfax, Tunisia
Political party	Machrouu Tounes

Mohsen Marzouk (Arabic: محسن مرزوق; born July 1965) is a Tunisian politician. He holds a degree in political sociology and International Relations from the International Studies Association in Tunis.

Mohsen Marzouk was born in July 1965 and raised in a poor working-class neighborhood in the city of Sfax. At fourteen, he was expelled from school for his oppositional political activities. He managed to re-enter and finish high school in Sfax.^[1]

At the University of Tunis, Marzouk was a leading student activist. In 1987, while still enrolled, he was arrested by Tunisia's secret police. He was interrogated and tortured for many days before being sent to a labor camp in the southern desert.^[1]

When he was allowed to return, Marzouk remained politically active. He worked towards reinstating the General Union of Tunisian Students (UGET)^[1] which after Ben Ali's rise to power became deeply divided over its further political course.^[2] Marzouk was appointed to the UGET's executive bureau^[1] while at the same time, he was conspiratively active for the outlawed leftist movement El Amal Ettounsi.^[3]

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From 1989 on, he worked as a coordinator for the newly founded Arab Institute for Human Rights.^[4] Since 2008 he has been secretary-general of the non-governmental Arab Democracy Foundation and member of the International Steering Committee of the Community of Democracies.^[5]

Marzouk is one of the founders of Nidaa Tounes and was member of the party's Executive Committee.^[4] As Beji Caid Essebsi's campaign manager in the 2014 presidential election^[6] he announced Essebsi's victory in the runoff vote on 21 December,^[7] stating that Tunisians were now turning the page of the transitional phase^[8] and that Tunisia was now a stable democracy.^[9] Marzouk’s faction within Nidaa Tounes supported a more assertive, secularist government.^[10] Marzouk left the party in early January 2016^[11] and later became part of Machrouu Tounes.^[12]

• Marzouk, M. (1997): The Associative Phenomenon in the Arab World: engine of democratisation or witness to the crisis? in: David Hulme and Michael Edwards (ed.): "NGOs, States and Donors. Too close for comfort?" New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997. Republished: London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, ISBN 9781137355140.
• Marzouk, M. (2003): Social Movements in Tunisia: Searching for the Absent. Arab Research Center, 2003.
• Marzouk, M. (2005): Social Movements in Tunisia and the Democratization Process. Santiago: Community of Democracies, 2005. (archived)