Dalia Ghanem is a resident scholar at the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut, where her work examines political and extremist violence, radicalization, Islamism, and jihadism, with an emphasis on Algeria. Recently, she wrote a paper on Algeria’s northeastern border region, titled Algeria’s Borderlands: A Country Unto Themselves, examining how the illicit trade affects life there, and how relations have affected state formation in the country. To discuss her paper and the situation in Algeria more generally, Diwan interviewed Ghanem in early June.
This publication was produced with support from the X-Border Local Research Network, a program funded by UK aid from the UK government. The views expressed do not necessarily reflect the UK government’s official policies.
