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Hicham Ben Abdallah, MA
Consulting ProfessorView Hicham Ben Abdallah's bio, list of research, recent publications and events »
August 31st, 2009
Back to the future: the Arab nationalist tradition and the political imagination of today
CDDRL, FSI Stanford, ARD Op-ed: Le Monde Diplomatique on August 1, 2009"The Arab and Muslim world is indeed in crisis," CDDRL Visiting Scholar Hicham Ben Abdallah of Morocco writes in an article for the August 2009 edition of Le Monde Diplomatique ("Retour vers le futur dans le monde arabe"). The crisis, he notes, may "give us a new opportunity to reclaim our fate from foreign powers, local autocrats, and religious fanatics." To do so, he adds, "we can benefit from recuperating the best elements from our great tradition of Arab nationalism." Read more »
September 23rd, 2008
The resilience of authoritarianism
FSI Stanford, CDDRL Op-ed: Encina Columns Summer '08Since the first gulf war, most authoritarian regimes In the Arab world have been able to maintain structures of governance that have endured since the post-World War II process of decolonization. We have not seen the emergence of agents of change capable of mounting effective political challenges. Regimes that often seemed to be losing international and domestic credibility have been able to remake themselves in ways that worked to maintain power and control. Read more »
April 17th, 2008
Hicham Benabdallah writes about Arab democracy in age of terrorism
CDDRL, FSI Stanford Op-ed: Le Monde DiplomatiqueFor the last 20 years authoritarian regimes have refashioned themselves in order to stay in power, writes CDDRL visiting scholar Hicham Benabdallah in Le Monde Diplomatique. As the middle class under these regimes becomes increasingly disengaged from local politics, many social groups see the hope for their future outside the national context. Read more »
October 3rd, 2007
CDDRL visiting scholar Hicham Ben Abdallah interviewed on "Al Jazeera in English"
CDDRL, ARD in the news: Al Jazeera on October 3, 2007On October 3, 2007, Hicham Ben Abdallah, a visiting scholar at CDDRL, was the guest of Riz Khan on Al Jazeera in English. The interview centered around the prospects for reform and democratization in Morocco. There was a focus on the recent elections in Morocco, with comments on the worrisome high abstention rate. The prospects and strategies for reform in the wider Arab world were also discussed. The point was made that the path forward for monarchies is to redefine their role as institutions of arbitration. The segment is about 20 minutes long, and would be of interest to anyone who is studying the Arab and Muslim world, monarchy and democratization, or the Middle East. 
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