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Mathieu Guidère, Professor of Islamic Studies

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The Arab Spring was not initiated by Islamists. And yet, in almost all those countries, with the Islamists’ rise to power, it is clear that they have profited from it. Mathieu Guidère, Professor of Islamic Studies at Toulouse-Le Mirail University, tells us why.

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