Ennahda President Rachid Ghannouchi expected the Wafa Movement and the Liberté et dignité parliamentary group to join the ruling coalition but said that there were still issues to resolve...
There was no surprise then when the recent award of Britain’s Chatham House Prize for the statesperson deemed ‘to have made the most significant contribution to the improvement of international relations in the previous year’ to Marzouki and Ennahda leader Rachid Ghannouchi met with derision in Tunis...
This cost US$250 000 and welcomed Islamists such as Tunisia’s Rachid Ghannouchi the Muslim Brotherhood Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie from Egypt and Khalid Meshaal from Hamas who profusely thanked Sudan for its help in Gaza and promised to take revenge on Israel for bombing the Yarmouk arms factory (AC Vol 53 No 22 Target Khartoum)...
Liberal mistrust of Islamist leader Rachid Ghannouchi is mounting after his unguarded remarks about collaboration with hard-line Salafist groups were secretly videoed and distributed on the internet...
Vol 53 No 6 |
- TUNISIA
- MAGHREB
He is married to Ennahda leader Sheikh Rachid Ghannouchi’s daughter Soumaya Ghannoushi (AC Vol 52 No 21 New rules for a new order)...
Vol 52 No 25 |
- NORTH AFRICA
Its government is to be led not by its leader Sheikh Rachid Ghannouchi but by Hamadi Jebali a former Editor of the party newspaper who spent 15 years in gaol (including a decade in solitary confinement) from 1992...
Bouguerra Soltani the leader of the smallest party in the ruling Presidential Alliance the Mouvement de la société pour la paix (MSP) has been 'galvanised' by the Muslim Brotherhood's breakthrough elsewhere meeting Tunisian Ennahda's Rachid Ghannouchi when he visited Algiers in November and celebrating the victory of Abdelillah Benkirane's Parti de la justice et du développement (PJD) in Morocco...
Ennahda led by 70-year-old Rachid Ghannouchi who founded it in 1981 presents as a modern Islamist movement on the lines of Turkey’s Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi (AKP Justice and Development Party)...
• Hizb Ennahda (Renaissance Party): founded in 1989 by Rachid Ghannouchi the party has established itself as a mainstream Islamist party...
As these arguments intensify between the revolutionaries and the transitional regime many believe the main beneficiaries will be the Islamist Hizb Ennahda (Renaissance Party) and its leader Rachid Ghannouchi who returned from exile in January...
After two decades in Britain Rachid Ghannouchi provokes strong responses...