Government meanwhile has been less polarised since the Nidaa Tounes party and Ennahda formed a parliamentary and government coalition in 2015 negotiated by their respective leaders President Béji Caïd Essebsi (aka BCE) and Rachid Ghannouchi (AC Vol 57 No 11 Separating mosque and state)...
Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika is so concerned by events on his country's eastern flank that he met Hizb Ennahda leader Rachid Ghannouchi – not a natural ally – no fewer than six times in 2016...
Chahed a member of the secularist Nidaa Tounus party is strongly supported by President Béji Caïd Essebsi but his administration has brought together key factions in moves supported by the other leading player in contemporary Tunisian politics Hizb Ennahda leader Sheikh Rachid Ghannouchi...
Veteran Islamist leader Rachid Ghannouchi has surprised many by announcing that henceforth his Hizb Ennahda would separate politics from religious work...
In an increasingly difficult situation for Essebsi père et fils 'Béji Caïd Essebsi is a man who retains confidence but at this moment the person doing most to keep the coalition in office seems to be Rachid Ghannouchi...
The leader of Tunisia's Hizb Ennahda Rachid Ghannouchi described El Turabi's death as a 'catastrophe' on 5 March '…not only for his country but for Muslims and fellow Islamists at large'...
Its leader Rachid Ghannouchi seems unusually relaxed with this arrangement...
One mediator is Tunisian Islamist leader Rachid Ghannouchi who we hear wept as he told the pair that the international Islamist movement could not afford to lose Sudan as a landmark...
This week the leader of Ennahda Rachid Ghannouchi told reporters he believed elections would be held on time while the head of the secular Nidaa Tounus party Béji Caïd Essebsi said he thinks that economic problems will delay polling...
Emphasising that Bouteflika is back meetings were held with the Tunisian Ennahda leader Rachid Ghannouchi on 10 September and octogenarian Nidaa Tounus (Call of Tunisia) leader Béji Caïd Essebsi a day later...
Alarmed at the impact on the international movement Islamist leaders such as Khalid Meshaal of Hamas Tunisia’s Rachid Ghannouchi and Egypt’s Yusuf al Qaradawi are still trying to reconcile the NCP factions we hear...