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The chaos unleashed by storm Daniel on Derna, a city in eastern Libya, is nothing short of apocalyptic. The two dams that broke after the torrential rains flooded the city and tore the land out from under its inhabitants, washing away entire neighborhoods. This catastrophe not only took a tragic..

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..

Intrigued by the divergent outcomes of the Arab Spring protests in the various countries, and having conducted comparative research before, I invited Shamiran Mako, then a visiting scholar at Northeastern University, to join me on a project that would explore f..

On Wednesday, 26 January Jadaliyya co-editor Mouin Rabbani spoke with Claudia Gazzini about Libya. This episode of Connections examines the persistent conflict in Libya and the challenges confronting its state and society. 

Join us on Wednesday, 26 January for a discussion between Jadaliyya co-editor Mouin Rabbani and Claudia Gazzini about Libya. This episode of Connections will examine the persistent conflict in Libya and the challenges confronting its state and society. 

The book stems from the same impulse as my film, The Uprising (2013), which is a montage of online videos produced and posted to the Internet by the frontline actors of the Arab revolutions of 2011 to 2012.

Over the past years, Libya has hit the front pages of international media outlets with stories of migration, terrorism, and political instability. The ouster of Gaddafi and the call for the first elections in fifty years have given hope to all those who wished for a new era. A decade later, the ..

It is often difficult to separate fact from fiction in the information-rich world of today. The process becomes even more difficult when you consider subjects that themselves are contentious whether due to bizarreness, complexity, competing narratives, or plain obscurity of information. Muammar ..

North Africa is slowly moving away from Europe and the US after decades of tight political, economic, and security interdependence. The US’ selective disengagement from the Middle East and North Africa and Europe’s inward focus on migration have opened op..

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My grandparents were freedom fighters in the anti-colonial resistance in Libya. With the exception of the work of a few anti-fascist and courageous scholars, the genocide (1929-34) of Libyan nationals at the hands of Italian Fascists remains virtually unknown to all ..