[1][2] He is the director of the Geneva-based Arab Centre for Political and Social Research and Analysis,[3] and the editor-in-chief of the news website Taqadoumiya since 2010.

[8] This action is viewed as a sequel to Russia's involvement in Syria, where russians previously maintained a passive stance during Western-led regime changes, such as those in Iraq and Libya[9] Sidaoui suggests that this shift began with the Arab Spring of 2011, amidst a complex geopolitical landscape characterized by a "cold war" between established and emerging economic powers[10] After completing high-school education in Bouhajla, he obtained a master's degree in journalism (political specialization) from the Institute of Press and Information Sciences of Tunis in 1992, and a DEA (diplôme d'études approfondies) in 1995 from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of Tunis.

[17] In 1998, Sidaoui travelled to Algeria to work on behalf of SRG SSR and received interviews with several Algerian politicians such as Abdallah Djaballah, Louisa Hanoune and Chérif El Hachemi.

[18] He explains: "Despite the lack of a comprehensive study on the occupational origin of the leadership of Islamist movements in the Arab world, we can see an almost total domination of scientific careers.

[19] According to Riadh Sidaoui, habitual use of the term Wahhabism is scientifically false, and it should be substituted with the concept of Saudi Wahhabism,[20] an Islamic doctrine which is based on the historical alliance between the political and financial power represented by Ibn Saud and the religious authority represented by Abdul Al-Wahhab.

[21][22] Sidaoui thinks that the political foundations of Islam lie in the republican democratic and non-Wahhabi monarchy mind.