Dr Larbi Sadiki
MA (Sydney), PhD (ANU)
Extension: 4503
Telephone: 01392 724503
Senior Lecturer
Larbi Sadiki 's work focuses on democratisation, continuing his 'search' for democracy in the Arab Middle East, the topic of his 450-page title The Search for Arab Democracy: Discourses and Counter-Discourses (Columbia University Press book, 2004). Oxford University Press has released his new book: Rethinking Arab Democratization: Elections without Democracy(Oxford Studies in Democratization, 2009), PP. 324. Specifically, he is probing bottom-up and non-institutionalised discourses and struggles for democracy, focussing on the emerging space for political vocalism and activism in North Africa, the Levant and the Arab East. He is completing a book titled 'Salon democracy', a comparative analysis of the indigenous ways for learning democracy, as opposed to democratisation, in the Arab World. His focus on Islamist movements and Islamist notions of democracy is the subject of a 16-year-old research project that he will be publishing into a book in 2011. Currently, he is writing a book on Hamas to be published in 2010. His research feeds into his teaching; he offers a range of modules on democracy, democratisation and human rights in the Middle East and on Middle East-EU relations, with special reference to EU democracy promotion in the Mediterranean region. He is designing an MA, to be offered as of October 2010, on Democratization in the Middle East.
