By Tarek Amara TUNIS (Reuters) – One person died after he set himself on fire at the headquarters of Tunisia’s Ennahda Islamist party on Thursday, causing 12‮ ‬injuries including ‮Ali ...

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Said Ferjani, a leader of the largest opposition party, Ennahda, was arrested in Tunis in February 2023 on several charges, including “money laundering”, attempting to “change the nature of the state” ...

Most importantly, it was very successful, with Tunisia’s Ennahda Movement greatly inspired by the Muslim Brotherhood, and the party elected in Egypt’s first free election, the Freedom and ...

A collection of accounts published by Syracuse University Press describes gendered repression that has disturbing parallels ...

Tunisia's largest opposition party Ennahda said last week that more than 90 of its members were arrested. In a statement, Ennahda called the arrests "an unprecedented campaign of raids and ...

The North African country’s largest opposition party, Ennahda, said its senior members had been arrested at a level it had ...

That day will be some time in coming, so long as Ennahda, Tunisia's Islamist party, holds sway. Meherzia Labidi, a leading Ennahda member, disagrees with decriminalisation. "If our society's basis ...

On the first day of the pilgrimage, Abdelfattah Mourou, deputy speaker of parliament and vice president of the moderate Islamic Ennahda party, embraced Tunisia's chief rabbi and Djerba resident ...

The leftist politician had been a fierce critic of the then-ruling Islamist Ennahda party. He claimed it turned a blind eye to violence perpetrated by extremists against secularists. Although ...

In Tunisia, Brotherhood leader Rachid Ghannouchi has tried to rebrand his Islamist party, Ennahda, as “Muslim democrats” — a move ominously reminiscent of Erdogan’s repackaging of the AKP ...