Larbi Sadiki is Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Scholar, non-resident Senior Fellow at the Middle East Council on Global Affairs (Doha), and Toda Peace Institute Scholar (Japan). He is the author of numerous academic articles and books, including Rethinking Arab Democratization: Elections without Democracy (OUP, 2009), and the editor of The Routledge Handbook of Middle East Politics: Interdisciplinary Inscriptions (2020). He is the Editor-in-Chief of the journalProtest and co-author, with Layla Saleh, of Revolution and Democracy in Tunisia: A Century of Protestscapes (Oxford University Press, 2024).