Faces of Tahrir

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Bouteflika to Lift Emergency

Algeria has a very strong protest culture which may even have served as a point of reference for those who began the wave in neighboring Tunisia. Because of this, it is a strong candidate for revolution. Attempting to stave off that possibility, President Abd al-Aziz Bouteflika announced the country’s state of emergency would be [...]

Islamist Politics at MESA

Greetings from the 2009 annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association, where I’ve had the pleasure of attending four panels so far, all of which were interesting. One which probably has some interest for readers was Islamist Parties and the Political Process, which examined Islamist political movements in Morocco, Kuwait, and Algeria with [...]