Leila Ben Ali, the wife of Tunisia's ousted dictator, will publish a memoir of her life that is likely to stir controversy in the North African country where she was reviled by many as a latter ...

The years of Leïla Trabelsi-Ben Ali: – October 14, 1956, Leïla Trabelsi is born in Tunis – 1984: She meets Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, head of national security, who is already married and is the father ...

Leila Ben Ali delivers a speech last Oct. 28 during the opening of the Third Arab Women's Organization Conference in Tunis. FETHI BELAID / AFP - Getty Images ...

07 December 2009 First Lady Leila Ben Ali, Chairwoman of the Arab Women Organisation (AWO), Monday delivered a speech to the opening works of the International Conference entitled " Together for the ...

Leila Trabelsi, who goes on trial in absentia Monday with her deposed husband Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, was a secretary and hairdresser before becoming Tunisia's most powerful -- and maybe hated -- ...

PARIS -- Leila ben Ali, wife of deposed Tunisian dictator Zine el Abidine ben Ali, gave a measured apology for any “mistakes” she may have committed and admitted Tunisians were denied ...

Tunisia's justice minister said on Tuesday he suspected Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali was still benefiting from funds stashed abroad 16 months after his overthrow and urged Saudi Arabia to extradite the ...

And Leila Ben Ali ‘s family, the Trabelsis, was widely despised. “She is the chief of all this infection in [the] Trabelsi family,” a Tunisian journalism professor told the LA Times.

First, Ben Ali and his wife, Leila, who played a leading role in her husband's dictatorship, had bought off the majority of the country's economic elite.

"We succeeded in exposing secret accounts belonging to Leila Ben Ali in Lebanon worth $ {esc.dollar}45 million and we will receive this very soon," he said.

Ben Ali, who fled to Saudi Arabia as protests engulfed Tunisia on Jan. 14 2011, has been sentenced in absentia to decades in jail on charges ranging from corruption to torture.