Ilya Gorodisher of Stillwater used social media to collect the stories of 100 people who were touched by the 2011 Libyan uprising. By TIM HARLOW Ilya Gorodisher met scores of Freedom Fighters who took part in the 2011 Libyan Revolution that led to the ousting of Col. Muammar Gaddafi. Ironically, [...]

By Rhiannon Smith As an Arabic language graduate and self-professed Middle East enthusiast, I eagerly snatched up the opportunity to work in the mysterious Libyan Jamahiriya ↑ when I was offered a job there in 2010. At the time I was planning only to stay for a short period, just [...]

By Matthieu Aikins He once was known as al-Jamil—the Handsome One—for his chiseled features and dark curls. But four decades as dictator had considerably dimmed the looks of Moammar Gadhafi. At 68, he now wore a face lined with deep folds, and his lips hung slack, crested with a sparse [...]

By Saleh Bin Abdullah Al-Suleiman When I gripped the pen to write about the heroic Libyan child, considered the youngest prisoner during the Libyan revolution by the International Criminal Court (ICC), several feelings hit me. I don’t know where to begin..Is it a cry to those who were once considered [...]

By Richard Nield Speaking to a packed Frontline Club on 26th April, Channel 4 News’ International Editor Lindsey Hilsum shared a fascinating personal insight into the revolution in Libya last year that overthrew the regime of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi after 42 years in power. In Hilsum’s words, Libya was the [...]

By Stephany Lamy (@WCM_JustSocial aka @moiatable) Reading People Power 2.0 by the excellent John Pollock and his portrayal of my contribution in overthrowing a tyrant, led me to reflect on what the friggins happened to me. I had no ties with Libya before, and although I had heard of Human [...]

BY JOHN POLLOCK (@JohnPollock) The force of laughter: Graffiti on a wall in Tripoli represents the Libyan leader, Colonel Qadaffi, as a fleeing rat. Credit: John Pollock After weeks of skirmishes in the Nafusa Mountains southwest of Tripoli, Sifaw Twawa and his brigade of freedom fighters are at a standstill. It’s [...]

London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, in collaboration with the British Council in Libya, opened an exhibition presenting graffiti and paintings by both international and Libyan artists By Ati Metwaly Graffiti works by Libyan artists are featured in the exhibition that will run until 12 April in Tripoli’s Dar Al-Fagi for [...]

After Qaddafi, with a feeling of relief at this new burst of activity and pride at having accomplished their revolution, Libyan’s look forward. By Bridgette Auger “Qaddafi banned all kinds of things, anything where people could get together: football, card playing, games, boxing, clubs, any kind of hobby,” says a [...]

By DAMIEN SPLEETERS The uprisings in Libya and Syria have cast the Belgian small arms industry as a case study of the difficult balances within a Western arms-manufacturing community that seeks exports to preserve revenue and local jobs, but risks compromising European policies and human rights values. Belgium is one [...]

By Donna Bryson / Associated Press JOHANNESBURG—The family of South African photographer killed a year ago while covering the Libyan uprising is awaiting the identification of remains recently found buried with a camera lens in the North African country, his widow said. “We can only hope that the uncertainty will [...]

By N.R. Jenzen-Jones Nic Jenzen-Jones has been cataloging the optics used by the Libyan used by both sides during the Libyan Revolution. Let me just say, off the bat, that whilst I am familiar with a few different types and models of modern combat optics, I am by no means [...]

By Rima Bugaighis Years ago, on one of my first trips to Tripoli, I remember standing outside the hotel my family and I were staying at, waiting for our taxi, and noticing the giant-sized poster facing me on the other side of the street. It portrayed Gaddafi, wearing his symbolic [...]

Two accounts of Libya’s revolution from experienced correspondents offer depth, drama and disgust at Gaddafi’s cruel regime By Chris McGreal Few of us had much clue what we would find as we drifted past a deserted border post into a country run for as long as I could remember by [...]

By Nohad Topalian After 36 years in exile, Libyan journalist, political activist, artist, documentary filmmaker and long-time Kadhafi opponent Mohammed Makhlouf came back to Benghazi. Makhlouf spent his decades abroad directing anti-Kadhafi films. He also created the Sout al-Horeya (“Voice of Freedom”) page on social networking website Facebook, which is [...]