Larbi Sadiki is Senior Lecturer in Middle East Politics at the University of Exeter and Director of its MA program. His research focuses on bottom-up and non-institutionalized discourses and struggles for democracy in the Arab world, Arabo-Islamic political thought, Islamist movements and civil society. He is a regular commentator on the English website of Al-Jazeera. His recent book publications include Rethinking Arab Democratization: Elections without Democracy (2009) and The Search for Arab Democracy: Discourses and Counter-Discourses (2004).