Al-Nahda

As post-revolution Tunisia's politicians try to draft a new constitution, a clause on normalising relations with Israel has created controversy. Article 2.27 of the latest draft reads: "All forms...

The head of Tunisia's Al-Nahda (Renaissance) movement, Rashid Al-Ghannouchi, has said that his country's January 14 revolution was not only against injustice, tyranny and corruption. It was also, he...

The Al-Nahda bloc in Tunisia's National Constituent Assembly has said that its members won't participate in the meetings of the Parliamentary Committee of the Union for the Mediterranean alongside...

Rashid Ghannouchi, the leader of Tunisia's Al-Nahda Party, has pledged that the Islamic movement will not allow a repeat of the 1992 Algerian scenario to occur in his country....

On Thursday The Islamic Al-Nahda Movement criticised the media campaign in Tunis targeting Qatar and Qatari officials. Al-Nahda said in a statement: "The sister country Qatar and its officials...

Interim Tunisian President, Moncef Marzouki, has announced a proposal to complete the writing of Tunisia's constitution by April. It is hoped that this will allow for presidential elections to be...

The leader of the al-Nahda Movement, Rached Ghannouchi, stated on Wednesday that the movement has given up sovereign ministries within the Tunisian government currently being formed. It has been...

Reports on Israeli radio Tuesday afternoon suggested that a secret envoy for the Israeli government visited Cairo on Tuesday, and that he stayed there for several hours to hold...

Tunisia's National Constituent Assembly opened its debate on the draft constitution on Monday. The ruling Islamist Al-Nahda Party has been criticised by its opponents for the delay in drafting...

The Al-Nahda party in Tunis have released a statement about the massacre of protestors this morning outside the Republican Guard in Cairo. "Early this morning putschist forces committed a...

The Ruling coalition in Tunis said on Thursday that it is ready to play the role of mediator to lessen the tensions that have erupted in Egypt in the...

In a statement issued on Monday the movement commented on calls to dissolve the Constituent Assembly (the parliament) and the government, and warned against a repeat of Egypt's scenario...

A senior official of Algeria's Islamic Salvation Front (FIS), Ali Belhadj, has called on the Egyptian and Tunisian leaders to "learn from the Algerian experience and prevent it from...

The head of Tunisia's Al-Nahda Party has said that the dissolution of the National Constituent Assembly is a red line that cannot be crossed. Shaikh Rashid Ghannouchi added that...

After the ousting of Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi on Wednesday night, the chief of Tunisia's Ennahda Movement, Rashid al-Ghanouchi, ruled out a replication of the Egyptian scenario in Tunis....

The leader of Tunisia's Al-Nahda Party has called on anti-coup protesters in Egypt to stand up for their rights and reject the removal of President Mohamed Morsi. Shaikh Rashid...

In one of the largest demonstrations witnessed in Tunisia since 2011, tens of thousands marched on the capital, Tunis, on Saturday in support of the Islamist-led government. In a...

Rashid Ghannouchi, the leader of Tunisia's Al-Nahda Party has expressed its readiness for a popular referendum if protesters insist on demonstrating against the Islamist-led government. The move is an...

The Deputy Head of Tunisia's Al-Nahda Party said on Sunday that the Islamic movement is ready to accept any solution aimed at ending the transitional period in order to...

Egypt's interim Interior Minister, Mohamed Ibrahim, has denied that Muslim Brotherhood leaders were arrested during the bloody crackdown on the pro-Morsi protests in Rabaa Al-Adawiyya and Al-Nahda Squares. He...

Below is the statement from Rashid al-Ghanouchi of Tunisia's Al-Nahda movement: The coup authorities in Egypt have carried out a massacre against peaceful protesters in Cairo and other Egyptian...

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has called for an investigation into the conduct of Egyptian security forces as they cleared the protest camps in Cairo on Wednesday....

The Egyptian-based Rassd News Network (RNN) reported that initial estimates indicate that the number of deaths as a result of the police and army crackdown on Egyptians is 2,500....

Al-Nahda, the Tunisian Islamic movement, has called for the Egyptian Authorities to release the Muslim Brotherhood Supreme Guide, Mohamed Badie, who was arrested on Tuesday. After his arrest, Egyptian...

The adviser of the Tunisian government, Nouriddin Al-Bohairi, denied early on Thursday information about the government's intention to give the US permission to build a military base in the...

Algerian President Abdul-Aziz Boutafliqa received in the capital on Tuesday the head of the Tunisian Al-Nahda movement, Rashid al-Ghanouchi, an Algerian news agency reported. Both officials expressed their satisfaction...

Former Egyptian presidential candidate Ahmed Shafiq has publically admitted, for the first time, that the United Arab Emirates provided Egyptian security agencies and the Ministry of Interior with weapons...

On October 3rd Al Hiwar TV conducted an interview with a relative of Hamdi Hussein. Hussein was a sniper responsible for deaths in Rabba al Adawiya at the massacres...

Head of Tunisia's Islamist movement Al-Nahda Sheikh Rashid Al-Ghannouchi has described ousted Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi as a "legitimate president removed by violent military power". Speaking to the Algerian...

Rashid Ghannouchi has urged Tunisia's political parties to "prioritise reason and compromise" as the first formal talks of the "national dialogue" got underway on Wednesday. The talks coincide with...

The head of Tunisia's Islamic movement Al-Nahdah, Sheikh Rashid Al-Ghannouchi, affirmed on Monday that, "the current government will not resign unless an alternative is ready." Al-Ghannouchi also denied a...

Egypt's Al-Azhar University announced on Wednesday that it is postponing the start of the new academic year until after the Eid Holiday in two weeks' time. This is the...