Ahmed Tlili was born into a family of struggling farmers at El Ksar slightly to the west of the precise centre of the French protectorate of Tunisia .
El Ksar is a town a little in the Gafsa mining region .
Ahmed Tlili was born into a family of struggling farmers at El Ksar , a town a little in the Gafsa mining region , slightly to the west of the precise centre of the French protectorate of Tunisia .