James D. Le Sueur, "Algeria Since 1989: Between Terror and Democracy" (Zed Books, 2010)

Summary

"History doesn't repeat itself," so the saying goes, "but it does rhyme." This is particularly true in the recent history of the Middle East. As James D. Le Seuer, author of Algeria Since 1989: Between Terror and Democracy (Zed Books, 2010), explains in this interview, much of what we are seeing in, say, Egypt today played out in Algeria two decades ago. Is Algeria an augur of things to come in the Middle East? Listen in.

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