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About the Author
Mohamed Elhachmi Hamdi is a Tunisian-born writer and a doctoral candidate at the University of London. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of the Arabic-language newspaper Al Mustakillah and the English and Arabic quarterly The Diplomat. He was a member of the Tunisian Islamic movement al-Nahda for more than ten years before his resignation in 1992.