Director of the Centre for Global Development and Honorary Professor of Sociology, University of Aberdeen
BSc Sociology - 1970
MSc Sociology with Politics - 1975
PhD - 1982
Ben Ali: the Tunisian autocrat who laid the foundations for his demise
Oct 09, 2019 13:53 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisias former long-time president who died in mid-September, will probably be remembered best as the first autocrat to fall during the popular uprisings that spread across the Middle East in...
Public disgust over corruption threatens stability in the Middle East
Jun 13, 2017 08:37 am UTC| Insights & Views
During the Tunisian revolution of 2010-11, which sparked the Arab uprisings, protesters would chant A job is a right, you pack of thieves!. In Ben Alis Tunisia, supposedly a democratising country that regularly received...
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