Libya
Is Libya A Lost Cause?
Accepting western intervention in Libya under the guise of ‘help’ or ‘preventing bloodshed’ was a grave mistake by the Libyan rebels and their supporters across the Arab world. At that moment, Libya’s prospects turned bleak.
Arabs Get Creative About Development
A group of young Arab students in Montreal are working on an international development conference for this upcoming fall.
A Tale of Two Libyan Cities
Every day people die, and every day, in every video I watch from Misrata, I pretend I’m not scanning the faces for people I know.
An Idiot’s Guide on How To Repress the People
Time to give these old, crumbling autocracies a few pointers on how to tackle the never-ending conundrum of people pressure.
Gaddafi Fists Colonial-Crusaders
So the kid in the van falls out and what does the fist-pumping Gaddafi do? Looks back, turn away and continues fist-pumping. He handled that ‘Situation’ pretty decently, clearly. As for the Libyan State TV caption reads in the video, it just says that the Brother Leader is taking a stroll in the city of [...]
Gaddafi’s Blasphemy
We told the man from Mali Gaddafi is actually a terrible despot who oppressed his people for decades. The man began to weep and said ‘There is no good in someone who his not good to his own kin.’
NATO in Libya: The Syrian Script
Maybe what is happening in Libya is a check-mate situation. Libyans have no moves to make except the ones they are making.
Gaddafi’s Creativity is MIA
Libya’s ruler is the million ideas man when it comes to the world’s problems. His great imagination when it comes to other countries is nowhere to be found as he finds his own country in turmoil.
Questions on Libya
As the Libyan uprising closes in on its second month, too much of the discourse about it has been clouded. I’ve got so many questions. Who’s got answers?
The Price of the Divide on Libya
The military intervention in Libya has divided the left into two camps, the pro-interventionists and the anti-imperialists who define it as a military assault equivalent to the war in Iraq. As a Libyan, I reject this false contradiction.
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