Tunisia’s Islamic Wild Card
Since winning Tunisia’s first free election in 2011, the moderate Islamic party Ennahda has been unable to decide whether it will support a pluralistic or an Islamic state. Now, as the process of framing a new constitution winds down and another election looms, Ennahda's leaders must decide which future to pursue for Tunisia.
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TUNIS – Can political Islam be a constructive player in a truly democratic system? Tunisia is currently trying to answer that question – with implications that extend to the entire Arab world. Indeed, given that no Islamist party has ever governed democratically in an Arab country, Tunisia (together with Egypt) is undertaking an historic experiment.