One of the few groups with a national network, Nahda may benefit from a dispersal of votes among the rash of new parties.

ECONOMIST: Tunisia is getting back on track

An Islamist party called Nahda seems likely to have captured the lion's share of the votes cast in the first free election in Tunisia.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

In a sign of things to come, Rachid Ghannouchi, head of Nahda, the Tunisian Islamists who are close to the Brotherhood, recently met Israelis discreetly in Washington.

ECONOMIST: Israel and the Islamists