Algeria | Politics and Society from the Dark Decade to the Hirak
From an esteemed scholar on the Maghreb region, a pioneering account of Algeria’s Bouteflika years and the revolution that ousted him.
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When mass protests erupted in Algeria in 2019, on a scale unseen anywhere in the region since the Arab Spring, the outside world was taken by surprise. Algeria had been largely unaffected by the turmoil that engulfed its neighbours in 2011, and it was widely assumed that the population was too traumatised and cowed by the country’s bloody civil war to take to the streets demanding change. Read More..