Kamel Morjane
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Kamel Morjane, also spelled Kemal Mourjan, is a Tunisia
Tunisia
Tunisia , officially the Tunisian RepublicThe long name of Tunisia in other languages used in the country is: , is the northernmost country in Africa. It is a Maghreb country and is bordered by Algeria to the west, Libya to the southeast, and the Mediterranean Sea to the north and east. Its area...

n politician and diplomat who served as Tunisia's Minister of Defense from 2005 to 2010 and as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2010 to 2011.
Morjane was born in Hammam Sousse
Hammam Sousse
Hammam Sousse is a coastal town in northeastern Tunisia. It is located north of Sousse, at around . It has about 35,000 inhabitants . Former President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali and the minister of defense, Kamel Morjane, were born in this town....

, Tunisia
Tunisia
Tunisia , officially the Tunisian RepublicThe long name of Tunisia in other languages used in the country is: , is the northernmost country in Africa. It is a Maghreb country and is bordered by Algeria to the west, Libya to the southeast, and the Mediterranean Sea to the north and east. Its area...

 on May 9, 1948. After getting his bachelor of law degree and his diploma of Public Administration (ENA) from the University of Tunis,he studied International law and graduated from the Graduate Institute of International Studies
Graduate Institute of International Studies
The Graduate Institute of International Studies, best known as HEI , was founded in 1927 as one of the first institutions in the world dedicated to the study of international relations...

 in Geneva
Geneva
Geneva In the national languages of Switzerland the city is known as Genf , Ginevra and Genevra is the second-most-populous city in Switzerland and is the most populous city of Romandie, the French-speaking part of Switzerland...

,He obtained a diploma in Emergency management from the University of Wisconsin and a research certificate from the Hague Academy of International Law
Hague Academy of International Law
The Hague Academy of International Law is a center for high-level education in both public and private international law housed in the Peace Palace in The Hague, The Netherlands...

.

He worked at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees , also known as The UN Refugee Agency is a United Nations agency mandated to protect and support refugees at the request of a government or the UN itself and assists in their voluntary repatriation, local integration or resettlement to...

 (UNHCR) from 1977 to 1996, and served particularly as Director for South West Asia North Africa and the Middle East (1990-94), then as Director for Africa (1994-96) He was appointed in October 1996 as Permanent Representative of Tunisia to the United Nations and International Organisations in Geneva.
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In a world where there is so much to be done, I felt strongly impressed that there must be something for me to do." -wikipedia:Dorothea Dix|Dorothea Dix

 
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