Founder of Ennahda and the central intellectual figure of Tunisian Islamist politics for four decades. Speaker of the Tunisian parliament from 2019 to its 2021 suspension. Imprisoned since April 2023 in the post-power-grab roundup of opposition figures, with successive criminal cases brought against him. Now in his eighties; symbol of the trajectory from the 2011 Arab Spring's most-celebrated transition to its consolidated reversal.
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Democracy is not a Western invention; it is a universal human value.
الديمقراطية ليست اختراعاً غربياً، بل قيمة إنسانية كونية. Context: Frequent framing across post-2011 public commentary defending an electoral-Islamist commitment to participating in Tunisian competitive politics rather than imposing a single-party project.
- en.wikipedia.org — Wikipedia biography; the framing recurs across his post-2011 commentary
- en.wikipedia.org — Wikipedia — Ennahda movement, references its democratic-Islamist position