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Lindsay J. Benstead

The author is an Associate Professor in the Hatfield School of Government and Director of the Middle East Studies Center at Portland State University. She is a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC and holds a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan—Ann Arbor.
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Plus ŇŞa Change? Why True Change in Algeria Will be Difficult

Lindsay J. Benstead -
Like many others around the world who have visited Algeria and follow its politics, I have been watching intently the development of the post-Bouteflika...
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Why Are Algerians Protesting? It’s Not Against Bouteflika.

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I visited Algeria in 2013, in the months before the field came together for the 2014 presidential election, and before the Algerian public knew...

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