Abdennour Toumi, a journalist and North Africa Studies expert at the Middle East Studies Center, received his PhD in Political Science from the University of Toulouse in France. His articles are published in the national Turkish newspaper Daily Sabah English. He has also worked as a lecturer in the Department of Middle Eastern and North African Studies at Portland Community College. In addition, he was a member of the Middle East Studies Center at Portland State University. His research focuses on the socio-political transformations of North Africa, Turkey’s role in the region, migration issues, and the interactions of the North African diaspora in France. He is a former Maghreb & France correspondent for the Arab Daily News in Chicago, IL, USA. He is also a member of the Observatoire Européen de l’Enseignement de la Langue Arabe (OEELA) in Paris, France, and the Arab-American Journalists Association (AAJA) in Chicago, IL, USA.