#12 – December 20, 2012. The George Washington University’s Marc Lynch, director of the Project on Middle East Political Science, speaks with Michael Willis, University Research Lecturer and King Mohamed VI Fellow in Moroccan and Mediterranean Studies at St. Antony’s College, Oxford University. He is the author of Politics and Power in the Maghreb: Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco from Independence to the Arab Spring. Lynch and Willis discuss the rise of Islamist parties in Algeria post 1988 and the democratic transition and then address current political dynamics in the Maghreb and the Arab Uprisings.