Authors

Laryssa Chomiak and Robert P. Parks

 

Laryssa Chomiak is a political scientist, completing a book on the politics of dissent under Ben Ali and working on a new project entitled, Dictator Chic: How First Ladies of Despots Keep Fashion Houses in Business

 

Robert P. Parks is the Director of the Centre d’Études Maghrébines en Algérie. He received his Ph.D. in political science in May 2011, which was based on several years of qualitative research in Algeria and Tunisia. His research has been published in The Middle East JournalThe Arab Reform Bulletin, and he contributed to The Politics of Islamic Finance (2004). He is co-editor of a forthcoming volume on local-national relations in the Maghreb and is currently writing book on state building processes in Algeria and Tunisia, examined from the bottom-up. 

ARTICLES BY Laryssa Chomiak and Robert P. Parks