A Conversation With Rached Ghannouchi

Thursday, May 30, 2013
Speaker
Rashed Ghannouchi
Cofounder and President, Nahdha Party, Tunisia
Presiders
Isobel Coleman
Senior Fellow and Director, Civil Society, Markets, and Democracy Initiative, Council on Foreign Relations
Ed Husain
Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, Council on Foreign Relations

In a meeting hosted by CFR's Ed Husain and Isobel Coleman, Rached Ghannouchi discusses Tunisia's post-revolution successes and the challenges the Nahdha party has faced as it has worked with Islamist and secular parties to determine Tunisia's political future.

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