Hizbullah’s part in Gaddafi’s downfall
Libyans celebrated their liberation with mass demonstrations in Benghazi yesterday, the 28th anniversary of another landmark event in Middle East history. On Sunday, 23 October 1983, at 6.22 a.m., a...
View ArticleSaif and Sanusi
Militias of the Libyan Revolution have arrested Saif al-Islam Gaddafi and Abdullah Sanusi, Muammar Gaddafi’s two most prominent associates remaining at large. Saif is 39, Gaddafi’s second son and the...
View ArticleLibya and the Recklessness of the West
Libya no longer has – or is – a state. The political field throughout most of the Middle East and North Africa is dominated by the various fiercely competing brands of Islamism. The religious field has...
View ArticleThe Arms Dealer’s Assistant
Edwin Wilson, the CIA veteran jailed for carrying out the biggest illegal arms deal in US history, died in Seattle on 10 September aged 84. Born in Idaho, he joined the CIA in the 1950s after serving...
View ArticleLibya v. the ICC
The Libyan government has appealed against the International Criminal Court’s order to hand over Gaddafi’s longtime intelligence and security chief (and brother-in-law) Abdullah al-Sanusi for trial in...
View ArticleLibya’s Ancient Borders
The port of As Sidr is on the Gulf of Sidra, the enormous bay biting through Africa’s northern coast at the junction of Libya’s three major geographical regions: to the east, the lush agricultural land...
View Article‘L’Arabe du futur’
Riad Sattouf’s father travelled from a small Syrian village to Paris in the 1970s. He met Sattouf’s French mother at university there. After they graduated and their son was born, the family went first...
View ArticleWaiting to Cross
In a crowded room at a detention centre in Zawiya in western Libya, women from Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Senegal, Eretria, Benin, Liberia, Chad and Niger told me they wanted to go back home. The men who...
View ArticleState of Emergency
Two weeks out from the election, and soldiers are patrolling Britain’s streets. The securitisation response, with the usual bovine complicity across the media, has sidelined politics. Spooks who...
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