Inside the Middle East Q&A: Hicham Alaoui on Democracy, Opposition, and Institutions in North Africa and the Middle East

Excerpt from an October 24th installment of the “Inside the Middle East" Q&A Series, with Hicham Alaoui, Visiting Fellow at Harvard’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and D.Phil. Candidate at Oxford University, on current trends in North African politics including Tunisia’s nascent democracy, North Africa’s unique position in the Middle East region, and the ongoing protests in Morocco’s Rif region.

Watch the clip from the interview with Alaoui, conducted by Anna Boots, Editor-in-Chief of the Harvard Journal for Middle East Politics and Policy and a second year master’s candidate at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies:

Listen to the full interview below:

This series is presented in conjunction with the Harvard Journal for Middle Eastern Politics and Policy (JMEPP). For more about JMEPP, click here.