The Syrian National Council says it has received over $20 million in aid from Libya since it was founded in October 2011. It makes Libya its most important donor by far. These figures were released against the background of increasing pressure on the SNC to marginalise extremist elements within its [...]

Though he sold himself as either a costumed buffoon, a wild-eyed terrorist, or a wary reformer, Qaddafi’s rule from his unlikely rise to his inevitable fall was one of the most cunning and improbable feats of modern dictatorships By Max Fisher In the first few months of 1969, Libya was [...]

The Free Generation Movement spent the entire revolution protesting, resisting and fighting against Gaddafi and his regime from within Libya We lost family members and friends, members of the group were tortured and imprisoned, family were followed and harassed, our homes ransacked and we were threatened with death on television [...]

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 [...]

Libya had no film-making culture under Gaddafi: just a handful of cinemas and a propaganda machine. Days after a film sparked violence there, Steve Rose meets the new wave By Steve Rose While the people of Benghazi were ejecting the Islamist militias from their city last Saturday, another smaller but [...]

The message is we’ve made life out of destruction, A symphony of colors plays on the burnt-out walls of an improvised gallery in the eastern city of Benghazi, where Libyan artists display an abstract mood in the wake of revolution and war. Sculptures forged out of bullet casings and metal [...]

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 Himanil Pandya Elections in Libya will be held on July 7 to elect 200 members to the General National Congress (GNC) (Mutamar Al Chaab Al Aam). The GNC will replace the interim government of the National Transitional Council run by Mr Abdul Rahim El-Kleib. For these 200 seats, more [...]

During and after the fall of Qaddafi, street art has filled the walls of Libya. Here is a selection of graffiti in Tripoli. Photographer: Theo Stamatiadis | Writer: Juan Garrigues Source: REVOLVE

By H.E. Mr. Daeshick Jo Having grown up in Korea during the 70’s when Korea just started its process of democratisation and economic development after going through its colonial era and war, I can find striking similarities between the challenges that Libya is currently facing and that of Korea from [...]

By Emma Batha – June 20, 2012 The outpouring of generosity came spontaneously – people simply responded with compassion, a new report says. Tunisia had barely drawn breath following its revolution early last year when tens of thousands of people started arriving on its borders as an uprising in neighbouring [...]

Germany’s Wintershall is currently producing just over 70,000 b/d of oil in Libya, or around 70% of its output level from before the civil war in the North African country, a senior company official said Monday. Speaking at a conference in London, Wintershall vice president Klaus Langemann said the company’s [...]

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 [...]

By @MsEntropy Let’s play a game.  Google Libya and select “News.” I’m going to go out on a limb here and predict what you’ll find: a handful of articles on Libya’s ability to conduct Saif Gaddafi’s trial, several financial reports on oil production, “war destruction’ aplenty…you might even find the [...]

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 [...]