Rashid al-Ghannushi
Rashid al-Ghannushi
Rached Ghannouchi, also spelled Rachid al-Ghannouchi or Rached el-Ghannouchi, is a Tunisian politician, co-founder of the Ennahda Movement and serving as its "intellectual leader". He was born Rashad Khriji...
NationalityTunisian
ProfessionPolitician
CountryTunisia
office people wish
I will not be standing for office. I'm nearing 70; there are younger people within our movement. I just wish to contribute intellectually to the historic process of taking Tunisia from the era of repression to one of democracy.
party als movement
Al-Nahda is a movement; it is not just a small party.
egypt democracy tunisia
I hope that with the success of the transition to democracy in Tunisia that we will export to Egypt a working democratic model.
world aggressive secularism
French laicite is probably aggressive and antagonistic to the religion, but there are other models of secularism in the world where there could be reconciliation between religion and secularism.