an article by Layli Foroudi first published in
New Humanist [via Eurozine]
Can Tunisia's Islamist party Ennahdha secure the gains of the 2011 uprising and adapt itself to secular democracy?
The coalition has been praised for its progressiveness as its new constitution enshrined sexual equality, omitted Sharia law, and maintained the separation between 'mosque and state'. Leftists, however, fear that these are 'fig leaf' measures, while former Islamist voters complain that the party cares more about governing than defending Islam and the revolution.
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