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The revival of political Islam in the MENA region : the case of Ennahda in Tunisia
(2015) Abbiate, Tania
It analyzes the success of Islamic political parties in Arab countries after the period called the Arab Spring, focusing on the case of Tunisia. The revolutions that took place in countries of the Middle East and North Africa between 2010 and 2012 lead to a process of constitutional reform, which unexpectedly saw a resurgence of Islamic political parties, such as Ennahda (Tunisia), which came to the fore in the institutionalized phase of the movement through democratic elections. Although in some of these countries the picture has since darkened, in Tunisia the constitutional transition is under way, with the recent approval of a new constitution and the calling of legislative and presidential elections. We describe the Ennahda party and analyze the regulatory framework applicable to political parties in the post- -revolutionary context, demonstrating that the religious connotation of parties is not necessarily an obstacle to democratic transition