Rached Ghannouchi, the opposition leader of the highly influential Ennahda Party in Tunisia, was arrested on Monday after police raided his home. Ghannouchi and his party helped forge a compromise with secularists shortly after the Arab Spring, which laid the groundwork for Tunisia's peaceful democratic transition. This year, Ghannouchi has faced repeated questioning by
Conservatives in Morocco have forced the Islamic feminist Asma Lamrabet to relinquish her post at the Centre d'Etudes Feminines en Islam in Rabat. A debate on discrimination against women in Islamic inheritance law sparked the conflict, fuelled in part by a draft amendment in Tunisia that would institute an egalitarian law of inheritance there. By Claudia Mende
Having finally scaled the pinnacle of his country’s politics, will political compromises now undermine Anwar’s dream of a genuinely democratic Malaysia?