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Rached Ghannouchi

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Rached Ghannouchi

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Also known as Rachid al-Ghannouchi

Tunisian politician

Person · Open Library

Works
2

Top works

  • On Muslim Democracy
  • Public Freedoms in the Islamic State

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Active from
1933
Active to
2008-04-09

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Key facts

President
Kais Saied
Prime minister
Youssef Chahed , Elyes Fakhfakh , Hichem Mechichi
Preceded by
Abdelfattah Mourou (interim)
Succeeded by
Ibrahim Bouderbala
Born
Rashad Khriji , ( 1941-06-22 ) 22 June 1941 (age 84) , El Hamma , French Tunisia
Party
Ennahda Movement
Parent
Sheikh Muhammad (father)
Alma mater
Cairo University , Damascus University
Website
www .rachedelghannouchi .com

via Wikipedia infobox

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Encyclopedic overview

Rached Ghannouchi (Arabic: راشد الغنوشي, romanized: Rāshid al-Ghannūshī; born 22 June 1941), also spelled Rachid al-Ghannouchi or Rached el-Ghannouchi, is a Tunisian politician, the co-founder of the Ennahdha Party and serving as its intellectual leader. He was born Rashad Khriji (راشد الخريجي).

Ghannouchi was named one of Time's 100 Most Influential People in the World in 2012 and Foreign Policy's Top 100 Global Thinkers and was awarded the Chatham House Prize in 2012 (alongside Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki) by Prince Andrew, Duke of York, for "the successful compromises each achieved during Tunisia's democratic transition". In 2016, he received the Jamnalal Bajaj Award for "promoting Gandhian values outside India". On 13 November 2019, Ghannouchi was elected Speaker of the Assembly of the Representatives of the People. Ghannouchi narrowly survived a vote of no confidence after 97 MPs voted against him on 30 July 2020, falling short of 109 needed to oust him as Speaker of the House.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rached Ghannouchi” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.