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Moderation not necessarily the recipe for Tunisia’s ruling Ennahda
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Moderation not necessarily the recipe for Tunisia’s ruling Ennahda

TUNIS — These are trying times for Ennahda, the moderate Islamist party that won a controlling share of seats in…
Tunisia’s Salafi flavor
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Tunisia’s Salafi flavor

TUNIS — The appearance of Mohamed Khouja, the leader of Tunisia’s first licensed Salafi political party, does not overtly show…
Q&A with Rajaa Ben Slama: Tunisia’s Islamist-secular divide
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Q&A with Rajaa Ben Slama: Tunisia’s Islamist-secular divide

Raja Ben Slama, a professor of Arab civilization at Manouba University in Tunis, founder of The Tunisian Cultural Association to…
Tunisia needs a revolution for economic integrity
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Tunisia needs a revolution for economic integrity

 Pictures of unemployed, self-immolated 26-year-old Mohammed Bouazizi line the offices of Tunisian officials, who emphasize a clear break with the…
Sabbahi to Tunisia’s Ghannouchi: There is defamation campaign against me
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Sabbahi to Tunisia’s Ghannouchi: There is defamation campaign against me

Former presidential candidate Hamdeen Sabbahi told Tunisian Ennahda Party head Rachid Ghannouchi that the Muslim Brotherhood and its presidential candidate…
Tunisian Islamist leader: We cannot normalize ties with Israel
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Tunisian Islamist leader: We cannot normalize ties with Israel

The head of Tunisia's governing Islamist party has said the country cannot normalize ties with Israel, the official TAP news…
Understanding the rise of Tunisia’s Islamists
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Understanding the rise of Tunisia’s Islamists

A few months after the first democratic elections were held in Tunisia, a question that still hovers over this post-revolution…
Tunisian assembly adopts provisional constitution
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Tunisian assembly adopts provisional constitution

TUNIS — Tunisia's constituent assembly adopted a provisional constitution that will allow the north African country to name a government,…
Islamist leader in Tunisia urges Brotherhood to join forces with liberals
Egypt

Islamist leader in Tunisia urges Brotherhood to join forces with liberals

Rashid al-Ghannouchi, president of the Tunisian Ennahda Party, which gained the majority of votes in recent parliamentary elections and formed…
Future of women’s rights in Tunisia remains in doubt
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Future of women’s rights in Tunisia remains in doubt

The Islamist Ennahda Party’s election victory in Tunisia has come to mean many different things. For outside observers wary of how the…
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