“Algeria is in a big crisis, because both of its political system’ sources of legitimacy, which are the war of independence and oil, have been contested by the population,” says Yahia H. Zoubir, Senior Professor of International Studies; Director of Research in Geopolitics, KEDGE Business School, Visiting Fellow at the Brooking Doha Center. According to him, the current protests exploded due to the long humiliation of citizens from the part of the sick president and the contract between the business and the state.