Tunisian Revolution

Tunisian President Mohamed Moncef Al-Marzouki has extended an invitation to his Egyptian counterpart, Mohammed Morsi, to take part in the second anniversary celebrations of the Tunisian revolution next month....

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...

Tunisia's Minister of Religious Affairs, Noureddine Alkhademi, has given instructions to the country's imams to present a moderate and tolerant discourse so that they serve Tunisian society's aspirations of...

Sheikh Rashid Al-Ghannouchi was re-elected as the leader of Tunisia's ruling Al-Nahda Party on Monday during the 9th Convention of the party's General Committee. The convention was the first...

Tunisia's new President, Moncef Marzouki, has arrived in France for a 3-day official visit, his first since his election last December. Marzouki will meet French President Francois Hollande and...

The Ministry of Royal Palaces in Morocco has announced that the Tunisian President, Mohamed Moncef Marzouki, will visit the kingdom on Wednesday, February 8 until Friday. The president will...

Tunisia's ruling Al-Nahda Party has denounced the physical attack on President Moncef Marzouki and government ministers on Monday. The attack took place during a formal celebration of the second...

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...

The Arab Index Poll for 2012/2013, conducted by the Arab Centre for Research and Political Studies, has shown that the majority of Arabs in the Middle East support the...

The Tunisian army and police force have clashed with Islamic militants near the border with Algeria, a security source has revealed. There are no reports of any casualties or...

The Tunisian public was surprised to hear the news that its national Taekwondo team would participate in a match against the Israeli national team, which is considered a form...

Shaikh Rashid Ghannouchi, the head of Tunisia's ruling Islamic Renaissance Movement, Al-Nahda, has said that trying to overthrow the elected government through violent means is unacceptable. The people, he...

Rashid Al-Ghannouchi, the leader of Tunisia's ruling Al-Nahda Party has said that harmony between the ruling party and the other political parties is essential to get through the transitional...

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...

On August 28, an article published in the Independent alleged that Tunisia's leading party headed by Sheikh Rashid Ghannouchi, the Ennahda Party, had been offered significant sums of money prior...

Like a political tsunami uprisings swept across much of the Arab world, toppling in rapid succession the entrenched autocratic regimes of Zeinul Abedin Ben Ali in Tunisia, Hosni Mubarak...

Tunisia was the country that kick-started the Arab Spring. In December 2010, a desperate young man set himself on fire, and the ensuing protests led to the fall of...

Official statements coming from the original Arab Spring country all agree that the security situation in Tunisia is dangerous. This is down to recent incidents in the mountains on...

The last time I visited Tunisia's capital over a quarter of a century ago, we behaved like the criminals in detective movies. In order to visit Sheikh Rashed al-Ghannouchi,...

It was not that it happened but the manner of Zain al-Abedin Ben Ali's departure from Tunisia which took everyone by surprise. The extraordinary speed, the humiliation and the...

As people across Egypt continue to rise against the brutal dictatorship of Hosni Mubarak it is quite clear they will not stop until he flies into exile. Quite clear...

Earlier this year year London played host to the highest ranking female politician in the Arab world, her position made possible by the advent of the Arab Spring –...

Tunisian feminist Amina Tyler says that she set out to highlight the issue of women's rights when she posted topless pictures of herself on the Femen website. Since you...

Spring is a time for optimism, with the green shoots of summer pushing through after a long winter. Alas, things in the Middle East are now very different. With...

Attempts to analyse the Arab Spring revolutions have included suggestions of foreign conspiracies to divide and rule what is left of the Middle East. Others suggest that the revolutions...