The deteriorating  security conditions in Libya, marked by a chaotic state of division and armed clashes, have led many observers to raise doubts about the capacity of the constitution drafting commission to produce a constitution capable of uniting all Libyan parties. In the following interview with Correspondents Siddiq Drissi, the official spokesman of the Commission […]

First Deputy Speaker of Parliament Mohammed Ali Shuaib helped plan UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon’s surprise visit to Tripoli on October 11. Presiding over the Libyan parliament’s second round of talks in a shaky reconciliation process, Ban Ki Moon stressed the international community’s support for the elected parliament. First Deputy Speaker of Parliament Mohammed […]

Ever since the Libyan parliament started convening in Tobruk, there has been much ado about its media performance. Some satellite channels and political personalities launched attacks on it because of the way it dealt with both local and international media, accusing it of imposing news blackouts. Previously, the council allowed the Libya First channel and […]

The conflicting political and military factions in Libya have multiplied recently, with each claiming it is seeking to achieve the 2011 revolution’s aims: justice, safety, and security. The conflicting political and military factions in Libya have multiplied recently, with each claiming it is seeking to achieve the 2011 revolution’s aims: justice, safety, and security. The […]

Twenty-two-year-old Ibrahim Abdullah, a fourth-year student at the faculty of letters at Benghazi University, is waiting for an end to the chaos in the city. He hopes the situation will stabilize long enough for him to complete the last three months of his graduation exams and go on with his life. Manfi said the university […]

Libya is a poor state. The story began with the discovery of oil, when all Libyans decided to throw down the shovels, picks and water buckets in their hands and shuffle over to sit down behind desks, like bureaucrats who do nothing but sip coffee and repeat the same old stuff about the terrifying conspiracies […]

Democracy is a revolutionary concept more than the revolution itself. Democracy gives everyone the right to self-determination and everyone under a democracy is a citizen with his own opinion. Those who do not have their own opinions will eventually be called to have them when there is a democracy. Yet the revolution monopolizes this right […]

The commission for the drafting of the Lybian constitution held its first meeting in the city of al-Bayda in April in the presence of 56 members respresenting the three Lyban Geographic regions. Two representatives of the Berber region boycotted the meeting in protest at the voting systsem, while no representatives were also present from troubled […]

Large crowds of people gathered in al-Sahaba Yard in Derna’s city center on August 21, not to watch a football match but to see Sharia justice in action. The Shoura Council of Islamic Youth—which controls Derna— sentenced two Egyptian men to death for killing 17-year-old taxi driver Muhammad al-Hasadi. “People of all ages filled every […]

Three months have passed since the launch of Operation Dignity led by retired general Khalifa Haftar in the east of Libya against Ansar al-Shariah and other armed formations.  “Our forces are in Benghazi and they were able to disperse these organizations,” claimed the operation’s spokeman Muhammad Hijazi, in a previous interview with Correspondents. Three months […]