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Description of  The Suspended Disaster: Governing by Crisis in Bouteflika's Algeria (Columbia Studies in Middle East Politics)

After Algerias president Abdelaziz Bouteflika announced his intention to run for a fifth term in early 2019, a popular peaceful uprising erupted calling for change. Bouteflika, who had been in office since 1999, was eventually forced to resign, but the Hirak (movement) continued to protest the countrys inequalities and entrenched ruling elite. Read more