At the beginning of 1998, accounts of massacres in Algeria horrified world opinion. The start of the holy month of Ramadan brought reports that whole villages had been savagely attacked; men, women, and children were systematically slaughtered. More than seventy …
Minorities are always more important than their numbers might seem to merit for, if nothing more, they are society’s bellwethers. Changes in their legal status and social roles reveal broader changes in a society. In North Africa the shrinking role …
Why does the transition to liberal democratic politics present such intractable problems in the Arab world? Just as liberalism appeared to triumph in much of the rest of the world, most of the Arab world retreated from it. In the …
