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Rachid al-Ghannouchi co-founder of the Ennahda Movement and serving as its intellectual leader


“Ennahda” Seeks to Become Civil Movement

“Ennahda” Seeks to Become Civil Movement

Tunisia- Tunisia’s Islamist Ennahda party, headed by Rashid al-Ghannouchi, is expected to officially announce Friday during its 10th conference, which will be held in southern Tunisia, separating its religious activities from political ones and becoming a civil party....
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Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi speaks to a crowd as he leads Friday prayers in Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, on February 18, 2011. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra, File)


Opinion: How Islamism has damaged Islam

Opinion: How Islamism has damaged Islam

It is true that Islam is too big to be damaged by the attacks that have recently been launched against it and which in reality are more the concern of those who instigated them than the world’s more than 1 billion Muslims. At the same time, however, much of these...
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Jamal Al-Din Al-Afghani (Asharq Al-Awsat)


Iran and the Ikwhan: From Tehran to Cairo and back

Iran and the Ikwhan: From Tehran to Cairo and back

In the 1920s, Turkey, Iran and Egypt—the three nations that for centuries had set the agenda for Islamic debate and dissent, including the promotion of various heresies—found themselves set on trajectories that led to the unknown. In Turkey, the successor state of the...
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Damages are seen inside the Museum of Islamic Art as members of the UNESCO delegation assess the damage to the museum in Cairo, Egypt, on Friday, January 31, 2014. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)


Opinion: Decapitating the Great Sphinx of Giza

Opinion: Decapitating the Great Sphinx of Giza

It is hysterically paradoxical that the so-called Ansar Bait Al-Maqdis (Defenders of Jerusalem) have proudly claimed responsibility for an explosion that destroyed the world’s most significant museum of Islamic art in Egypt. Despite the significance and the...
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FILE – In this Sept. 30, 2012 file photo, Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, and Egyptian President Muhammed Morsi attend the congress of Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party in Ankara, Turkey. (AP Photo/File.)


Debate: A Gulf–Turkey alliance is impossible

Debate: A Gulf–Turkey alliance is impossible

There is no doubt that the Turkey of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is fundamentally different from that of eras since the demise of the Ottoman Empire in 1923 at the hands of Mustafa Kamal Atatürk. At that time, Atatürk, supported by the army and Turkish...