Lahouari Addi, a native of Algeria, is associate professor at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Lyons, France, and visiting professor of political science at the University of Utah.
Algeria’s massive wave of protesters wanted to put an end to sham elections. While the leaderless movement succeeded for a time, its failure showcased the lengths to which a country’s…
Read the full essay here. This article makes a case of the basic distinction between Islam and Islamism and presents three central arguments: 1. through religious reforms and a rethinking…