Archives: Libya

Libya pictureBritain should take the lead in Libya

Writing for CMEC, Jason Pack, argues for greater UK participation in Libya.

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French Embassy -Tripoli - LibyaTerror attack targets French embassy in Tripoli

France’s embassy in Libya was hit by a car bomb early on Tuesday morning, injuring two guards and causing serious damage to the building.

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Libyan_FlagArmed Libya

Borzou Daragahi, in the Financial Times, anaysles growing unrest in the wake of the Libyan elections.

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5933977790_a928bea948_oFilm protests: What explains the anger?

Shashank Joshi outlines some of the reasons for the current bout of unrest in the Middle East for BBC News.

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5550703873_cc38f165ea_zUS Ambassador to Libya killed

The US ambassador to Libya and three other embassy staff killed by an armed Islamist mob that stormed and set fire to the United States consulate in Benghazi, say Libyan officials.

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Libya pictureLibya’s constitution controversy

Duncan Pickard of the Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East outlines the problems facing Libya in drafting a new constitution.

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Libyans votingLibya’s defeated Islamists

Omar Ashour from Exeter University writes in Al Jazeera about the extraordinary success of liberals in the recent Libyan elections and why the Islamists lost.

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Libya electionsThe success of liberals in Libya

Shashank Joshi, a speaker at previous CMEC events and doctoral student at Harvard University’s Department of Government, looks at the Libyan elections and how they will change the analysis of the Arab Spring.

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ICCWhy are ICC officials incarcerated in Libya?

An article by Jason Pack, a researcher in Middle Eastern history at the University of Cambridge, on Al Jazeera looks at why four ICC officials continue to remain incarcerated despite intense international pressure to release them.

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Libya flagCan Saif Gaddafi get a fair trial?

The arrest of an ICC lawyer visiting Saif Gaddafi raises many important questions about the future of Libya writes Vivienne Walt for TIME.