Sonia Mabrouk
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Sonia Mabrouk | |
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 Sonia Mabrouk in February 2023 | |
| Born | 1977 (age 48–49) Tunis, Tunisia |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Employer(s) | CNews, Europe 1 |
Sonia Mabrouk (Arabic: سنية مبروك, romanized: Sanīyah Mabrūk; born 1977) is a Tunisian-born French journalist.[1] After first embarking on an academic career in Tunisia, in 2005 she turned to journalism, writing for the magazine Jeune Afrique. In 2009, she was engaged by the French parliamentary television channel Public Sénat and later hosted political programmes on the radio station Europe 1. In 2017, Mabrouk published her first book Le monde ne tourne pas rond, ma petite-fille.[2][3]
Born 1977 in Tunis, Sonia Mabrouk was brought up as an only child in an upper class Tunisian family with connections to President Habib Bourguiba. Her grandfather Mongi Mabrouk was Tunisia's trade minister and her uncle Hédi Mabrouk was a diplomat and foreign minister. After matriculating from high school when she was 16, she studied at the Carthage High Commercial Studies Institute, IHEC, graduating in 2002. When she was 20, she earned a master's degree at the Panthéon-Sorbonne University with a thesis on marketing (2004).[1][4]
