Mr Fadl makes his case for the compatibility of democracy and Islam from the University of California at Los Angeles, probably a more securesetting than his native Cairo.
While Algeria as a whole hardly offered a secure investment setting for foreign firms (the World Bank ranked them 148th out of 183 in terms of the ease of doing business), the energy sector seemed especially turbulent.
Hansen offers a method that in other contexts would have seemed reserved for the truly paranoid: use a separate browser to connect to secure sites, setting the browser to load directly to secure URLs rather than click through from an unprotected site.