By Courtney Freer
A UAE crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood gained widespread attention in 2012 but it began in the mid-1990s. Read More
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By Abdelkader Assad
He posed for the tens of cameras in front of him wearing a fancy military outfit that has been ornamented and decorated with such a neat to be found in the best fashion shops in New York and Paris – at least those two cities are his buddies! Read More
By Darren L. Linvill
In spring 2015, Frederic Wehrey, senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, found himself sleeping on a mattress in a garage outside Sirte, Libya. Read More
By Courtney Freer
Many have speculated that one cause behind the Gulf crisis is Qatari support for the Muslim Brotherhood, but the history of the organisation in the countries behind the rift complicates this narrative. Read More
BMI View: General Khalifa Haftar’s apparent strategy shift towards political cooperation with the Government of National Accord creates room for progress in the national reconciliation process, and we expect a re-negotiation of Libya’s existing peace deal over the coming months. Read More
By Andrew Hammond
Andrew Hammond explores the continuities and new developments in representations of Islam, politics and violence in the Middle East. Read More
By Ilia Xypolia
The release of Saif al- Gaddafi dominated the media for several days in early June. But the saga of Saif’s unconfirmed release fits right into broader regional politics and the contest for power and influence by countries in the region. Read More
By Courtney Freer
Many have speculated that one cause behind the Gulf crisis is Qatari support for the Muslim Brotherhood, but the history of the organisation in the countries behind the rift complicates this narrative. Read More
By Esther Honig
Paying for school is a challenge for most every college student, but for students in the U.S. from Libya, many have the money but can’t access it. Libya has become increasingly unstable and it’s harder for citizens to get money to the U.S. Read More
By Andrew Hammond
Andrew Hammond explores the continuities and new developments in representations of Islam, politics and violence in the Middle East. Read More
By Clifford Krauss
The price of oil keeps sinking, and there is no shortage of reasons: American oil companies are producing too much petroleum. The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries has not cut production enough. Motorists around the globe are not driving enough to shrink crude and gasoline inventories as quickly as expected. Read More
By Robert Cusack
An east Libyan minister with links to the head of the Libyan National Army, General Khalifa Haftar, was photographed next to two prominent Israelis on Saturday. Read More
By Rima Alefani
The southern region’s Tuareg and Tubu people regularly married and shared good relations, until the revolution, caused rifts and has led to fewer marriages amongst them. Read More
Like the country itself, Libya’s media environment is in chaos
By Mustafa Fetouri
Some of the main reasons that drove the Libyan uprising forward in 2011 were freedom of speech, freedom of expression and free media. So how free has Libya been over the last six years? Read More
By Karim Mezran and Elissa Miller
The rift within the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) is one of the most significant foreign policy challenges facing the Trump administration. Read More
A study of mixed refugee and migrant flows by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, has found that around half of those travelling to Libya do so believing they can find jobs there, but end up fleeing onwards to Europe to escape life-threatening insecurity, instability, difficult economic conditions plus widespread exploitation and abuse. Read More
By Frederic Wehrey
We fight terrorism for the sake of the world, reads the billboard overlooking one of this strife-torn city’s upscale streets. Read More
By Mustafa Fetouri
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has appointed Ghassan Salame as his new special envoy to Libya and as the head of the UN mission in the country known as the UN Support Mission in Libya. Read More
By Robert Cusack
Le Drian has called for a drastic solution to bring Libya back to ‘normality’ and the plan could involve controversial renegade general Khalif Haftar. Read More
By Claudia Kramatschek
In his memoir, “The Return”, the writer Hisham Matar confronts the ghosts of his past: the disappearance of his father, the expropriation of his country’s history and the shattered dream of a new Libya.
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By Emily Estelle
A Libyan militia released Saif al Qaddafi, the heir apparent of deceased Libyan dictator on June 9. Read More
By Sami Zaptia
Libya remains the main source of destabilization of the Sahel countries and the state seems to have a minor presence in the vast southern porous region, a report released this month states. Read More
By Hassan Mneimneh
Does Qatar fund terrorism? Certainly. It is an argument based on an accusation that is applicable to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Iran, Turkey, Russia, and the United States. Read More
By Karim Mezran, Elissa Miller, and Emelie Chace-Donahue
Libya today is close to being considered a failed state. The political system is stalled and authority is divided between an internationally recognized government, the Presidential Council and Government of National Accord (PC/GNA) in Tripoli and the House of Representatives (HoR) in Tobruk. Read More
By Jamie Merrill
Libyan spy Mohammed Ismail’s involvement in 2003 plot did not prevent UK diplomats meeting him as the Gaddafi government fell. Read More
By Fadwa Kamel
Libyan experts claim a memorandum between Libya and Italy to slow the flow of migrants might be impossible to realize. Read More
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Nearly half of the countries emerging from civil war relapse into conflict a few years after signing a peace agreement. Read More
Libyan involved in 2003 plot has lived in UAE and is close to Abu Dhabi ruler, says Gaddafi son – contradicting Saudi claims of Qatari involvement. Read More
A bill aimed trying to get compensation for victims of Libyan-backed IRA terror had its first reading in the House of Lords on Monday – the first step on its way to potentially becoming law. Read More
By Tishani Doshi
In 2012, Hisham Matar, who had been in exile for 33 years, returned to Libya to chronicle what might have happened to his missing father. Jaballa Matar, Hisham’s father, had been kidnapped by Muammar Gaddafi’s security forces in 1990 and imprisoned in the Abu Salim prison in Tripoli. Read More
By Rick Fulker
Two years ago, the 19-year-old Libyan artist Takwa Barnosa founded an art foundation in her traumatized homeland. She explains to DW what she seeks to achieve with it. Read More
By Mustafa Abdulwahab Saqizly
Those of us who have seen the terrible cost of armed conflict first-hand understand all too well that talking is, in the end, the only way build lasting peace. Read More
A rare look at the fight against ISIL in the eastern Libyan city of Derna in the constant flux of the post-Gaddafi era. Read More
By Mohsin Khan and Karim Mezran
Libya is in a Catch-22 situation—political agreement cannot be reached without economic improvement and political stability is necessary to revive the economy. Read More
By Giorgio Cafiero and Dr. Theodore Karasik
Six years ago, Qatar’s “pro-Arab Spring” foreign policy helped shape Libyan history. Read More
By Ashur Shamis
In a personal contribution, Ashur Shamis calls for a dialogue between the West and the Muslim world. This is a chapter from the e-book ‘The Future of the Middle East’ co-produced by Global Policy and Arab Digest, and edited by Hugh Miles and Alastair Newton. Freely available chapters will be serialised here and collected into a final downloadable publication in the spring. Read More