Tunisia Party leader
Rached Ghannouchi
راشد الغنوشيFounder of Ennahda and the central intellectual figure of Tunisian Islamist politics for four decades. Speaker of the Tunisian parliament from 2019 to its 2021 suspension. Imprisoned since April 2023 in the post-power-grab roundup of opposition figures, with successive criminal cases brought against him. Now in his eighties; symbol of the trajectory from the 2011 Arab Spring's most-celebrated transition to its consolidated reversal.
Inherited position
Until Rached Ghannouchi is scored from their own documents, this page shows their party's compass position. Where individuals visibly diverge from the party line, the gap is noted in the description above; quantifying it is what per-individual document scoring will add.
Briefs about Ennahda
Hand-written political-science mini-papers comparing Ennahda to other parties. 1 brief on file.
On the record
Quotes attributed to Rached Ghannouchi that have passed verification. Each carries a year, the context of the statement, and at least one source citation. Browse the full corpus or play the "Who said it?" game.
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Democracy is not a Western invention; it is a universal human value.
الديمقراطية ليست اختراعاً غربياً، بل قيمة إنسانية كونية.
Source documents
Texts tied to this politician — speeches, interviews, op-eds. The scoring pipeline reads these when scoring positions against documents. All documents →
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Speech Arabic 2012-03-02 Rached Ghannouchi — “Secularism and the Relation between Religion and the State” (CSID lecture, Tunis), 2 March 2012 (English translation of Arabic original)
This leads us to ask the following question: are we in need of secularism in its procedural aspect? Perhaps the most important idea in the ensemble of these procedures is the idea of the state's neutrality i.e. towards…
How to cite
Each record carries a retrieval date because the dataset is live — individual entries update as verification deepens. Use the per-record citation when referencing this specific profile; use the dataset citation below when referencing the project as a whole.
In-text: (Gara, 2026)
Per-record citation
APA 7Reference list · academic default
Gara, T. (2026). Rached Ghannouchi [Politician profile]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/rached-ghannouchi-tn
Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals
Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Rached Ghannouchi." Politician profile, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed June 21, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/rached-ghannouchi-tn.
BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers
@misc{tayyar-rached-ghannouchi-tn,
title = {{Rached Ghannouchi}},
author = {Gara, Tarek},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
type = {Politician profile},
url = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/rached-ghannouchi-tn},
urldate = {2026-06-21},
note = {First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.}
} Dataset / working-paper citation
If you're citing Tayyar as a project rather than this individual record.
APA 7Preprint
Gara, T. (2026). Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset [Preprint]. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper
BibTeXPreprint
@unpublished{tayyar-preprint,
title = {{Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset}},
author = {Gara, Tarek},
year = {2026},
type = {Preprint},
url = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper},
urldate = {2026-06-21},
note = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
} First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.