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Libya

World

4 Times Journalists Held in Libya Faced Brutality

No one really knows the script for days like these, and neither did we.

Anthony Shadid, Lynsey Addario, Stephen Farrell, Tyler Hicks New York Times Mar 2011 10min Permalink

From Libya With Love

What did $3M paid to a US consulting firm get Qaddafi? A glowing profile in The New Republic, written by a Harvard professor, who travelled to Tripoli to interview him. On the consulting company’s dime. Which he failed to disclose.

David Corn, Siddhartha Mahanta Mother Jones Mar 2011 10min Permalink

'Volcano of Rage'

On the structural underpinnings of the revolts currently shaking the Arab world.

Max Rodenbeck New York Review of Books Mar 2011 15min Permalink

Politics World

The Heir

One of most popular Libyan figures amongst Western intellectuals and democracy advocates is… Qaddafi’s second son, Saif.

Eliza Griswold The New Republic Jul 2010 15min Permalink

World

Letter from Libya: Circle of Fire

On Colonel Muammar Qaddafi, “the permanent revolutionary,” and his son Seif.

Andrew Solomon New Yorker May 2006 55min Permalink

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