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Interview: Gilles Kepel over zijn nieuw boek

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  • Interview: Gilles Kepel over zijn nieuw boek

    ”Many people in Europe had completely unrealistic expectations of the Arab Spring. Then came the rude awakening. It all seems much too oversimplified to me. This is about the desire for democracy in countries where living standards are very low and the distribution of social wealth is highly unequal, where the judiciary has a very weak basis and despotism dominates. Nevertheless, I believe that changes have been set in motion.”

    For three decades now, the renowned French sociologist and political scientist Gilles Kepel has been monitoring the development of Muslim societies. He sees a close connection between the developments in the French suburbs and the events in the Arab world. Beat Stauffer spoke to him in Paris
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