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Vol 57 No 11

Published 27th May 2016


Tunisia

Separating mosque and state

Veteran Islamist leader Rachid Ghannouchi has surprised many by announcing that, henceforth, his Hizb Ennahda would separate politics from religious work. It would operate as a 'democratic and civil' party, 'keeping politics out of the mosque', he claimed.

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