20111130 Reuters (Reuters) - Hundreds of Islamists demanding segregated classes and the right for women to wear full-face veils at university clashed with secular students near Tunis on Tuesday in the latest flare-up between the two camps.
20111123 Reuters (Reuters) - Tunisia's constitutional assembly, elected after a revolution that inspired the "Arab Spring" uprisings, held its opening session on Tuesday, described by officials as an historic step toward democracy.
20111119 Reuters (Reuters) - Tunisia's Islamist Ennahda party and its two coalition partners have reached agreement in principle to share out the top three government posts between them, senior sources from two coalition parties told Reuters on Friday.
20111119 Press TV A senior Tunisian official has said that Hamadi Jebali of the Islamic Ennahda party is set to become the next prime minister of the country, under a deal struck between the three main Tunisian parties.
20111116 Reuters (Reuters) - Tunisia's secularists said their fears about an Islamist takeover were being realized on Tuesday after a senior official in the moderate Islamist party which won last month's election invoked the revival of a caliphate, or Islamic state.
20111108 Reuters TUNIS (Reuters) - The Islamist party Ennahda has sounded so moderate since winning Tunisia's first free election last month that it can be hard to see what role religion plays in its political thinking.
20111029 Press TV New clashes have erupted in central Tunisia between the police and Supporters of the party that ended up fourth in the country's landmark elections of October 23.
20111026 Reuters (Reuters) - More democracy is bringing more political Islam in the countries of the Arab Spring, but Islamist statements about sharia or religion in politics are only rough indicators of what the real effect might be.
20111026 Reuters (Reuters) - Tunisia's moderate Islamist party on Tuesday claimed a thumping victory in the country's first election, sending a message to the region that once-banned Islamists are challenging for power after the "Arab Spring."
20111026 Reuters (Reuters) - Tunisian Islamist leader Rachid Ghannouchi is seen by many secularists as a dangerous radical, but for some conservative clerics who see themselves as the benchmark of orthodox Islam -- he is so liberal that they call him an unbeliever.
20111025 Press TV With a turnout that has surpassed all expectations, the Tunisian election could set an example for the rest of the region, journalist and writer Adel Lotfi told Press TV in an interview.
20111025 Reuters (Reuters) - Moderate Islamists claimed victory in Tunisia's first democratic election, sending a message to other states in the region that long-sidelined Islamists are challenging for power after the "Arab Spring."
20111023 Reuters TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisian voters stood in long queues on Sunday, seizing the opportunity to take part in the first election of the "Arab Spring" that was expected to hand the biggest share of power to an Islamist party.
20111021 Reuters TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisians should vote without fear of rigging or any violence in the first free election after an uprising earlier this year, the prime minister said on Thursday.
20111010 Reuters TUNIS (Reuters) - Police in Tunis used teargas on Sunday to disperse hundreds of Islamists attacking them with stones, knives and batons, the biggest clashes over religion in the Tunisian capital for several years.
20111009 Reuters TUNIS (Reuters) - Islamists stormed a university in Tunisia on Saturday after it refused to enroll a woman wearing a full-face veil, a staff member said, highlighting tensions over religion that are likely to dominate an election later this month.
2011108 Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama heralded Tunisia's progress toward democracy after a White House meeting with Prime Minister Beji Caid Sebsi on Friday, awarded for the country's "inspiration" of the Arab Spring.
20110928 Reuters TUNIS (Reuters) - A Tunisian court of appeal has freed Muammar Gaddafi's former Prime Minister Al-Baghdadi Ali al-Mahmoudi, who was sentenced to six months in jail last week after he was arrested near the North African country's border with Algeria.
20110928 Reuters TUNIS (Reuters) - Tourism revenue in Tunisia has tumbled since the uprising that forced autocratic leader Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali to flee the country in January, sliding about 40 percent year-on-year in the first nine months of 2011, official figures showed on Tuesday.
