My main research interests are Contemporary French Politics and Post-Colonial Studies. I am currently working on a historical and biographical dictionary of the Algerian War and the latest developments of the French Fifth Republic.
Major and most recent publications
Rousseau and Fourier: Two French Precursors of Marxism (Avebury, 1996)
'The French Fifth Republic and Cohabitation', in Contemporary Studies , 1998, 794-800
'Fanon and Women's condition in Algeria', in Francophone Africa , 1999, 69-79
'Nouvelles, Monologue, Polémiques in Aziz Chouaki's Les Oranges', in ASCALF Yearbook , 2000, 8-26
Contribution to Dictionary to Francophone Studies (ed. M. Majumdar, 2002)
'Frantz Fanon and Algeria: alienation and violence', in Transition and Development in Algeria: Economic, Social and Cultural Challenges. (Intellect, 2005)
Algérie, Vers le Cinquantenaire de l'Indépendance (L'Harmattan, 2009)
'Littérature post-coloniale et corrosion politique: la troisième voix dans deux versions d'une nouvelle de Mohammed Dib' (Book Chapter, In Press)
Further information:
I am a member of the Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France and the Political Science Association.
