As the newly elected mayor of Tunis, Souad Abderrahim is a rarity in the Arab world. For one, she is a woman. But unlike the mayors preceding her — all of whom were men — she’s a self-made ...

As the election of Ennahda's Souad Abderrahim in Tunisia shows, an Islamist party’s rise to power does not necessarily come at the cost of gender equality Contrary to prominent views in the West and ...

ROTTERDAM, The Netherlands (CN) — A man charged with giving classified information to Morocco told judges at the Rotterdam District Court he did not want to discuss the case against him because it was ...

Souad Abderrahim dedicated her victory to "all women who have struggled" to reach senior positions. This was the first mayoral election in the Tunisian capital since the 2011 Arab Spring uprising. The ...

TUNIS — Souad Abderrahim is not like the past 32 mayors of this North African capital. They hailed from wealthy, influential families. She’s a self-made businesswoman. They were political appointees.

Moroccan MP Naïma El Fathaoui from the PJD has submitted a written question to the Minister of Foreign Affairs regarding the case of Abderrahim, a 35-year-old Moroccan man killed by a Spanish ...

Abderrahim Foukara is Al Jazeera Satellite Channel’s Washington DC Bureau Chief and host of the Arabic show "Min Washington" (From Washington), one of the Arab world’s most successful and influential ...