Rachid Ghannouchi

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...

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...