Eight years after the ‘Arab Spring’ why didn’t Algeria light a new fuse?
The world of the Middle East today, the one that Bouteflika chose to step quietly off the stage from, is much different than that world of towering figures like Saddam, Hafiz, Hosni and the others.
A demonstrator carries a sign as teachers and students take part in a protest demanding immediate political change in Algiers, Algeria March 13, 2019(photo credit: REUTERS/RAMZI BOUDINA)BySETH J. FRANTZMAN