Algeria: Middle East’s next revolt if soccer is a barometer
Algerian soccer fans protest in 2011
By James M. Dorsey
Algeria is competing to be the next Arab nation to witness a popular revolt. That is assuming soccer is a barometer of rising discontent in a region experiencing a wave of mass protests that have already toppled the leaders of Egypt, Tunisia, Libya and Yemen and sparked civil war in Syria.
In fact, th…
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