Rachid Ghannouchi

Bouguerra Soltani the leader of the smallest party in the ruling Presidential Alliance the Mouvement de la société pour la paix (MSP) has been 'galvanised' by the Muslim Brotherhood's breakthrough elsewhere meeting Tunisian Ennahda's Rachid Ghannouchi when he visited Algiers in November and celebrating the victory of Abdelillah Benkirane's Parti de la justice et du développement (PJD) in Morocco...

Ennahda led by 70-year-old Rachid Ghannouchi who founded it in 1981 presents as a modern Islamist movement on the lines of Turkey’s Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi (AKP Justice and Development Party)...

• Hizb Ennahda (Renaissance Party): founded in 1989 by Rachid Ghannouchi the party has established itself as a mainstream Islamist party...

As these arguments intensify between the revolutionaries and the transitional regime many believe the main beneficiaries will be the Islamist Hizb Ennahda (Renaissance Party) and its leader Rachid Ghannouchi who returned from exile in January...

After two decades in Britain Rachid Ghannouchi provokes strong responses...

Earlier in March young activists under middle-aged Brother Ibrahim el Zaafarani had launched an online campaign for a ‘Renaissance Party’ just like Rachid Ghannouchi’s En Nahda in Tunisia...

Also attending was Tunisia’s Rachid Ghannouchi veteran Sudan passport-holder who claims affinity with Turkey’s ruling party which arrived in force...

Rachid Ghannouchi returns In exile in London since 1989 when negotiations to bring his Islamist party into the political system failed Hizb Ennahda (Renaissance Party) leader Rachid Ghannouchi faces a very different political arena from the 1990s...

Like Islamist parties elsewhere Rachid Ghannouchi sees that as his support base and we hear wants his return to Tunis to be spectacular...

Rachid Ghannouchi says this is what Ennahda now stands for...

During the same period GSPC cells reportedly supported an attack on police units in Tunisia where President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali has controlled Islamists with a rod of iron since his 1989 crackdown on Rachid Ghannouchi's Ennahda (Renaissance) movement...

Exiled Islamist Rachid Ghannouchi's Ennahda (Renaissance) movement celebrated its 25th anniversary last June in London – and there is no likelihood of a return home soon...

Foreign Affairs Minister Ben Yahia has been in London to promote Tunisian claims and to remind Britain that Ennahda leader Rachid Ghannouchi lives in the UK...