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Moderation not necessarily the recipe for Tunisia’s ruling Ennahda
World
November 4, 2012
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
World
August 29, 2012
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
Egypt
August 16, 2012
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
Opinion
August 9, 2012
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
Egypt
June 11, 2012
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
World
April 1, 2012
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
Opinion
February 1, 2012
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
World
December 11, 2011
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
December 7, 2011
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
World
December 7, 2011
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…