Rachid Ghannouchi

One mediator is Tunisian Islamist leader Rachid Ghannouchi who we hear wept as he told the pair that the international Islamist movement could not afford to lose Sudan as a landmark...

This week the leader of Ennahda Rachid Ghannouchi told reporters he believed elections would be held on time while the head of the secular Nidaa Tounus party Béji Caïd Essebsi said he thinks that economic problems will delay polling...

Emphasising that Bouteflika is back meetings were held with the Tunisian Ennahda leader Rachid Ghannouchi on 10 September and octogenarian Nidaa Tounus (Call of Tunisia) leader Béji Caïd Essebsi a day later...

Alarmed at the impact on the international movement Islamist leaders such as Khalid Meshaal of Hamas Tunisia’s Rachid Ghannouchi and Egypt’s Yusuf al Qaradawi are still trying to reconcile the NCP factions we hear...

Ennahda President Rachid Ghannouchi expected the Wafa Movement and the Liberté et dignité parliamentary group to join the ruling coalition but said that there were still issues to resolve...

There was no surprise then when the recent award of Britain’s Chatham House Prize for the statesperson deemed ‘to have made the most significant contribution to the improvement of international relations in the previous year’ to Marzouki and Ennahda leader Rachid Ghannouchi met with derision in Tunis...

This cost US$250 000 and welcomed Islamists such as Tunisia’s Rachid Ghannouchi the Muslim Brotherhood Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie from Egypt and Khalid Meshaal from Hamas who profusely thanked Sudan for its help in Gaza and promised to take revenge on Israel for bombing the Yarmouk arms factory (AC Vol 53 No 22 Target Khartoum)...

Liberal mistrust of Islamist leader Rachid Ghannouchi is mounting after his unguarded remarks about collaboration with hard-line Salafist groups were secretly videoed and distributed on the internet...

He is married to Ennahda leader Sheikh Rachid Ghannouchi’s daughter Soumaya Ghannoushi (AC Vol 52 No 21 New rules for a new order)...

Its government is to be led not by its leader Sheikh Rachid Ghannouchi but by Hamadi Jebali a former Editor of the party newspaper who spent 15 years in gaol (including a decade in solitary confinement) from 1992...