Algeria’s austerity measures are driving protests among its previously acquiescent middle class, and the state is hardening its stance against such unrest.
Idriss Jebari is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Arab Council for Social Sciences in Beirut. He has a background in international relations and previously worked with the United Nations on human rights in the MENA region. He is currently writing and economic transitions and the resulting transformations of Maghreb societies. He has a PhD from Oxford University, where he wrote his doctorate on the history of the production of critical thought and socio-cultural change in Morocco and Tunisia.
Algeria’s austerity measures are driving protests among its previously acquiescent middle class, and the state is hardening its stance against such unrest.
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