‘Foreign Agendas’ Arab Dictators’ Card Long repressed by their authoritarian regimes, thousands of people have taken to the streets in several Arab countries to demand more freedoms and democratic changes...

Ban Polygamy, Not Hijab: Tunisia Islamists

Political Parties and Leaders in Tunisia

While calling for lifting decades-long ban on hijab, Tunisia's newly legalized Islamic movement reiterated support for an official ban on polygamy in the north African country...

In the light of the formation of a national unity government in Tunisia, we provide herein an information map on the most important political parties and groups in Tunisia...

Tunisia: When a Nation Wants Freedom

The Vendor Who Toppled the Dictator

The Tunisian popular "Jasmine" revolution has finally imposed its power over the ruling regime after breaking well-tightened chains of a totalitarian repressive rule led by President Zine Al-Abidine Ben Ali for 23 years...

This 26-year-old vendor, a university graduate, spent years searching unsuccessfully for a job opportunity that fitted his education level. Like millions of Arab youths, he decided to practice a lawful profession to make ends meet...

Egypt and Tunisia: A Citizen Blames The Leaders

Democracy: One of the Objectives of Shari`ah?

The world leaders are caught off guard. He perhaps does not know what to do. They did not expect the situation in Egypt to go out of hand in such abrupt manner and to have the Jin escape from the bottle...

Dr. Al-Raysouni is a jurist who specially focuses on the objectives of Shari`ah and an expert at the Islamic Fiqh Academy. He discusses the dire need for democracy from a realistic and shar`i perspective that turns it into an aspect of Shura...