Power couple: How Europe and Algeria can move beyond energy cooperation
Europe and Algeria need each other. Their range of overlapping interests creates the opportunity to build a broad and mutually beneficial partnership
Experts & Staff
Zine Labidine Ghebouli
ECFR Alumni · Visiting Fellow
Areas of expertise
Algeria, Euro-Med cooperation, geopolitical competition, democratisation and youth
Languages
English, French, Arabic
Biography
Zine Labidine Ghebouli is a visiting fellow with the Middle East and North Africa programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations. He is a consultant and scholar on Euro-Mediterranean cooperation and Algerian politics, including as a non-resident fellow at the Arab Reform Initiative. Previously, he worked for the Middle East Institute and the Asfari Institute for Civil Society and Citizenship.
Ghebouli holds an Erasmus Mundus double MA in south European studies from the University of Glasgow and European and international studies from Aix-Marseille Université. He is also a graduate of the American University of Beirut, where he specialised in political studies and international law.
In the media
The hype of Arab countries about joining the Brics is an extension of a political desire to diversify economic partners in the wake of the Ukraine war
Zine Ghebouli comments on the Arab countries’ plan to join the BRICS, challenging the Western order in the Middle East
Zine Labidine Ghebouli writes about Europe-Algeria relationship