Hicham Alaoui, Visiting Fellow at Harvard’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and D.Phil. Candidate at Oxford University, sits down with Anna Boots, Editor-in-Chief of the Harvard Journal for Middle East Politics and Policy and a second year master’s candidate at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, to discuss current trends in North African politics, including Tunisia’s nascent democracy, North Africa’s unique position in the Middle East region, and ongoing protests in Morocco’s Rif region.