by Asharq Al-Awsat | Oct 12, 2013 | Middle East
Tripoli and Benghazi, Reuters—Libya’s Prime Minister Ali Zeidan said on Friday gunmen who abducted him briefly were part of a coup attempt by opponents in the country’s legislature. The militia snatched Zeidan from the Tripoli hotel where he lives during a...
by Khalid Mahmoud | Jul 5, 2013 | Interviews
Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat—Nouri Abusahmain is the newly elected president of the Libyan General National Congress (GNC), making him the country’s interim head of state during the current transitional period. Speaking exclusively to Asharq Al-Awsat, Abusahmain spoke...
by Daniel Nisman and Roshanna Lawrence | May 10, 2013 | Opinion
It is often said that the great questions of our time will not be settled by speeches and votes, but by iron and blood. It is a maxim that certainly rings true for the question of Libya’s democratic future. With the world’s attention fixated across the Mediterranean...
