CARNEGIE EVENT:
Supporting Tunisia's Imperiled Transition
This event will launch a new Carnegie report entitled:
Between Peril and Promise: A New Framework for Partnership With Tunisia.
Tunisia's political transition is as remarkable as it is fragile-imperiled by both security challenges and significant socioeconomic obstacles.
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Ennahda from within: Islamists or "Muslim Democrats"?
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Brookings Paper | March 2016 -
By: Sayida Ounissi Sayida Ounissi, member of Tunisia's parliament, addresses the issues of the very identity of Ennahda and why it is important to discuss the supposed Muslim Brotherhood paternity of the movement, what the failure of the "legalist" approach... "In a nutshell, Muslim-Democrat is the most accurate term to describe what Ennahda is trying to accomplish since the beginning: reconciling Islam and democracy in the Arab world."
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Foreign Policy | Democracy Lab
By Karina PiserThe Ennahda party was widely seen as a threat to Tunisia's democratic transition. Instead, it helped drive it forward. Tunisia has indeed made formidable progress in consolidating its democracy - the only one to emerge from the Arab Spring - since a popular uprising toppled its longtime strongman, Zine el Abidine Ben Ali, in 2011. But a close look at Tunisia's democratic transition reveals that much of the credit should go to the country's largest Islamist party, Ennahda, and its willingness to embrace compromise with secular political forces. Read Full Article
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