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8/9/2012 2:15:53 PM
The Tunisian police fires warning shots and tear gas to disperse a demonstration demanding the resignation of the Islamist-led government
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8/7/2012 12:32:36 PM
Ennahda's leader Rached Ghannouchi denounces the growing number of 'calls for regional and sectoral strikes' in Tunisia; opposition accuses the ruling Islamist party of anti-democratic behaviour
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7/17/2012 12:20:08 PM
Rachid Ghannouchi is re-elected as Ennahda Party head, after sweeping more than 70 percent of the vote within the party's congress
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7/16/2012 4:28:55 PM
New data shows the costs of insuring the country's debt have doubled since Tunisia's dictator was overthrown early last year
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7/12/2012 4:25:28 PM
Tunisia's ruling Islamist party Ennahda holds its first congress at home in 24 years to discuss political and religious tensions; the head of Hamas Khaled Meshaal was among the foreign invited guests
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7/1/2012 10:02:57 AM
The interviewed artist agreed asked not to be named. Picking up a piece of work vandalized by Islamist zealots at a recent arts fair in a suburb of Tunis, she said: "Don't describe it or people will know who I am."
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6/13/2012 4:25:11 PM
Tunisia's Ennahda leader Rached Ghannouchi says Al-Qaeda "has no influence" and refutes arguments that recent unrest was based on a call by Ayman Al-Zawahiri, the supremo of the radically-Islamist armed movement
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6/12/2012 7:42:20 PM
Egyptian sociologist and activist Saad Eddin Ibrahim argues that the Tunisian revolution is the 'Cinderella' of the Arab Spring which paved the way for uprisings in other Arab states
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6/12/2012 12:26:01 PM
Tensions around the role of religion in a post-dictatorship Tunisia deepen, as Salafist protesters and police clash in the capital
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5/21/2012 8:52:18 PM
Tunisia's Islamist-led government says it will punish conservative Salafi Muslims who attacked alcohol shops in a central town over the weekend, raising religious tensions in the home of the Arab Spring
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5/11/2012 5:59:28 PM
Reform Front becomes first Salafist party ever formed after members of the hard-line religious current decide to change course and participate in politics
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5/7/2012 12:05:18 PM
Algeria's Islamists are dreaming of securing majority in Thursday's parliamentary elections to follow the steps of their peers in Tunisia and Morocco, but the task appears to be far-fetched
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4/16/2012 3:53:56 PM
In the midst of a downturn in tourism, Tunisia's new Islamist leaders assert that tourists are welcome and that their 'traditions' will be respected
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4/9/2012 1:39:11 PM
Tunisian police disperse a protest held in the main square in the capital to honor the martyrs of the country's struggles for freedom and protest against the Islamists Ennahda ruling party
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4/3/2012 10:39:55 AM
Rachid al-Ghannouchi, the co-founder of the Islamist Ennahda party, says he is in direct talks with the Salafists to convince them to work in a legal framework concerning "the Islamic law" in the new constitution
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4/1/2012 6:36:44 PM
Ruling Tunisian Ennahda party leader Rached Ghannouchi says "There can be no normalisation with Israel"
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3/28/2012 10:57:27 AM
Discussing his latest book on the 'Arab Democratic Wave,' author Alvaro de Vasconcelos and several notable speakers say democracy and Islamist politics aren't necessarily mutually exclusive
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3/26/2012 1:47:35 PM
Direct reference to Islamic law not needed in constitution in order tp safeguard the unity of the country, says Tunisia's main Islamist party
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3/23/2012 11:11:25 AM
Opposition parties in Tunisia's constituent assembly merge into blocs to challenge ruling Islamist party Ennahda and fight for a secular state
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3/8/2012 11:37:40 AM
The Green Algeria Alliance sees 3 of 5 Islamist parties join forces for upcoming elections
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