Libya ليبيا

Le chaos provoqué par la tempête Daniel qui s’est abattue sur Derna, une ville de l’Est de la Libye n’est rien de moins qu’apocalyptique. Les deux barrages qui ont cédé après les pluies torrentielles ont inondé la ville et ont arraché les terres sous leurs habitants emportant des quartiers entie..

On 10 September 2023, Storm Daniel produced massive floods in northeastern Libya, visiting particular destruction on the city of Derna. As entire streets and their residents were washed out to sea, it was clear that many thousands had perished. Mouin Rabbani, Editor of Quick Thoughts and Jad..

This book is a culmination of a quarter-century of interest, research, and teaching about the indigenous Amazigh populations of North Africa and the diaspora. As a scholar, I have been endlessly fascinated by the ways in which Amazigh groups that were systemati..

When approaching the academic literature on the politics of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, there has been a constant attempt to reduce anything Libyan to Mu’ammar Qaddafi. The richness of Libya’s social, economic, political dynamics is obliterated, and presented a..

I wanted to reassess the international intervention in Libya, to ask how it shaped Libya’s subsequent trajectory, and to explore what lessons there might be for international intervention more generally.

When I began researching social movements and protest events in the Middle East and North Africa, I was absolutely awed to learn about the extraordinary risks that activists were taking to advocate for democracy, human rights, and basic social provisions. In an..

On Tuesday, 17 May Jadaliyya Co-Editor Mouin Rabbani and former head of the UN mission in Libya, Ian Martin discussed the 2011 military intervention in Libya. This episode of Connections examines the role of the United Nations, the policies adopted by NATO, regional states, and the var..

Join us on Tuesday, 17 May for a discussion about the 2011 military intervention in Libya between Jadaliyya Co-Editor Mouin Rabbani and former head of the UN mission in Libya Ian Martin. This episode of Connections will examine the role of the United Nations, the policies adopted..