By Rana Jawad For decades, Libya appeared to be starved of talent. The entertainment industry is still virtually non-existent. But since the uprising that toppled the only man allowed to be famous in the country – Col Muammar Gaddafi – Libyans are leaving nothing to chance. In a small music [...]

Libyans discover video art after four-decades of cultural vacuum under regime of slain dictator Gathafi. By Youssef Ba Libya’s first video art exhibit proved a hit in Tripoli, drawing scores of spectators in a country emerging from 42 culturally barren years under the regime of slain dictator Moamer Gathafi. People [...]

By Joslyn Massad, Dominique Soguel TRIPOL: Portraits of toppled Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi may no longer adorn the walls of Tripoli University, but it is likely to be a long time before new values and higher standards become entrenched there. The signature red, black and green of the 2011 revolt [...]

Derna, 31 May - By George Grant You can get a good signal from 100.2 Malta XFM on the approach to Derna, and on clear nights, the lights of nearby Crete can be seen twinkling in the distance. But if some recent reports are to be believed, the extent of Europe’s [...]

A Closer Look at Law 37 of 2012 in the Context of International Obligations Under the UN ICCPR Treaty of 1976 By @cricket2771 Swiftly after the announcement of Law 37 of 2012 was made on the 3rd of May 2012, human rights groups (Amnesty International, HRW) have responded in the [...]

Just like the other revolutionary countries – most notably Egypt but also Tunisia, Bahrain, Syria and others – Libya has seen an explosion in street art. Under Gaddafi, neither political opposition nor independent cultural expressions were tolerated. Graffiti pieces like those you can see all over the streets today – [...]

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 [...]

BENGHAZI, Libya Apr 07 2012 Hundreds of people, including police and soldiers, protested in Libya’s second biggest city on Friday, calling on militias to lay down their weapons as the government tries to impose its authority on a myriad of armed groups months after the ouster of Muammar Gaddafi. Chanting [...]

By Gada Mahfud For decades Libyans suffered the oppression of a regime that used to claim that its people ruled themselves in a unique system of governance supposedly invented by Gaddafi. It was all a lie of course. There was no such thing as people’s rule. It was just a [...]

الاعلان باللغة العربية: منتدي ليبيا الجديد It’s been a month and almost two weeks since we launched this website on February the 17th 2012. We are ecstatic to announce our most recent upgrades to both the site and the forum. The new design is more user friendly, with new sharing [...]

By Tracey Shelton On a recent day in Tripoli, 20 different newspapers lay scattered across a newsstand. A lone customer glanced through the selection. Most featured heroic frontline battle scenes, others, images of street celebrations. Four months after its end, the revolution still dominates headlines here. Deprived of free speech [...]

AFP PHOTO/GIANLUIGI GUERCIA By Mohammad Azeemullah - February 18th, 2012 The bridal face of Libya on 17th February, 2012 was worth a billion-sight to behold. It was the day every house seemed lit with colourful bulbs and every door decorated with tri-colour flags of freedom. The celebration was remarkably amazing. The [...]