On the first anniversary of Mohamed Brahmi’s assassination, his widow denounces fundamentalism and terrorism in Tunisia. In memory of her husband, a left-wing politician, Mbarka Brahmi urges Tunisians not to support the Ennahdha party in the autumn elections, and appeals for peace.
Mbarka (...)
In conversations with Karima Bennoune over the past two months, Tunisian intellectual Amel Grami shares her analysis of the political crisis in Tunisia during the rule of the Ennahda party, and the strategies needed to defeat fundamentalism.
July 8, 2013
Karima Bennoune: Could you describe (...)
TUNIS — MOHAMED BRAHMI, the left-wing politician who was assassinated outside his home here last Thursday, was born in Sidi Bouzid, the same town where a desperate fruit vendor set himself on fire in December 2010, triggering the Tunisian revolution — and the Arab Spring.
The Islamist party (...)
Ammar Amrousia, assistant secretary general of the Workers’ Party, was attacked in public on Thursday, January 17, during a protest in the southern city of Gafsa. The demonstration had been in response to the appointment of the Gafsa Phosphate Company’s new director, whom protesters accused of (...)
Lecture by Yadh Ben Achour, at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, The 17th September, 2012.
Introduction
Since the 19th century, at all levels of its existence, the Muslim world has experienced a fundamental dualism between its historical heritage, turath, and the (...)
Secularists have accused Salafi radicals of attacking free speech in Tunisia, as a court said it will issue on May 3 its verdict in a blasphemy trial against Nessma TV over its broadcast of the award-winning film “Persepolis.”
The broadcast prompted calls by Salafi Islamists for the station (...)
A Tunis court’s decision to fine a TV boss for “spreading information which can disturb the public order” after he screened an animated French movie is a sign of the continuing erosion of free speech in Tunisia, Amnesty International said.
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE
3 April 2012
Nabil (...)
On the eve of the elections in Tunisia that will shape the future of the country and even that of the Arab world as well, Western do-gooders and Islamic fundamentalists hand in hand rejoice in ‘Tunisia’s first free elections’ and its access to ‘ democracy’. The recent history of Iran and Algeria (...)
TUNIS, Jul 31, 2011 (IPS) - The fundamentalist Ennahda party seems poised to take advantage of a chaotic situation ahead of general elections in Tunisia. Ennahda and other Islamist parties are taking advantage of the Aug. 2 deadline for registration for elections coinciding with the start of (...)
TUNIS — Accused as subversives or terrorists, they bore the repressive brunt of the Tunisian dictator’s reign — two decades of torture, prison or exile.
But since the dictator, President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, fled in January, the Islamists of the once-banned Ennahda Party have emerged from (...)
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