Rioting Against Disorder: The Moral Polity of the Algerian Crowd

The UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies presents a talk by independent scholar Hugh Roberts.

Tuesday, March 04, 2008
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
UCLA campus
Los Angeles, CA 90095

Hugh Roberts is an independent writer, lecturer, and consultant based in Cairo. From 2002 to 2007 he was the Director of the North Africa Project for the International Crisis Group. He is the author of The Battlefield: Algeria 1988-2002, Studies in a Broken Polity (Verso, 2003) and is currently working to complete books on the Berbers of Algeria and on Islamism.

Cost: Free and open to the public; pay-by-space and all-day parking ($8) available

For more information please contact

Center for Near Eastern Studies Tel: 310-825-1181
www.international.ucla.edu/cnes

Sponsor(s): Center for Near Eastern Studies.