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Rached Ghannouchi, veteran leader of Ennahdha that says it is the victim of a “coup d’état” in Tunisia, embodies the shifting sands of his Islamist-inspired party over the past decade. As a result, he is now struggling to mobilise a divided leadership and weary supporters.
Tunisia’s former President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali has died in exile aged 83, his family says.
The bloody end of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi was as brutal and ruthless as his 42-year iron rule of the oil rich North African country. However, Gaddafi is not the only dictator who met a violent end because history shows that iron-fisted rulers have met a similar fate.
The spontaneous revolution of Tunisian people has forever changed the Arab world; it has shown that grassroots revolution can happen everywhere. What happened in Tunisia stunned and embarrassed Arab and Western countries alike writes Zvi Mazel.