In a corner of a modest room at the post office of Musaid, an often overlooked village in eastern Libya straddling the border with Egypt, three young men take turns presenting programmes for the village radio station. The FM radio station’s team started broadcasting last Ramadan after getting the green light from the local council. […]

Matthew Millan travelled from Los Angeles to Benghazi in 2011 to witness the Libyan revolution. Images he captured form the heart of his film “We win or we die,” recently shown at the  Independent Arab Screen film festival in Benghazi. In an interview with Correspondents he explained what led him to the story and how […]

Lying on a bed in one of the rooms in Tripoli Hospital, Sabah was crying after giving birth. Suffering from postpartum hypertension, following a difficult pregnancy, the doctor prescribed Sabah an injection after the nurse had measured her soaring blood pressure. Many women in the ward were suffering from high blood pressure – until it […]

In order to get the title ‘martyr’s mother,’ Suad claimed that her oldest son, Ibrahim, who was killed while fighting with Gaddafi’s Khamis brigade, which fiercely tried to suppress the revolution, died while fighting with the rebels. In order to get the title ‘martyr’s mother,’ Suad claimed that her oldest son, Ibrahim, who was killed […]

Mahdi Saadawi leaves his house at dawn in Bi’r al Ashhab Village to travel 80 kilometers to the Civil Autism Association in Tobruk, 500 kilometers east of Benghazi. Saadawi has recently earned a license in special education and teaches autistic children for three hours in one of the association’s classrooms. Mahdi Saadawi leaves his house […]

Agostino Miozzo, Managing Director of the EU Crisis Response and Operational Coordination Department in Brussels, has a special perspective about the Libyan revolution because he was in the country during a very critical and dangerous situation. He has high hopes for the transition country and warns that progress involves time. You were one of the […]

The Supreme Council of Judicial Bodies (SCJB) has proposed a draft law to restructure and reform the Libyan judiciary, but judges and prosecutors have refused this draft law as they believe that legislative and executive authorities should not intervene in judiciary affairs and structuring. The Supreme Council of Judicial Bodies (SCJB) has proposed a draft […]

Libyan filmmaker Mohammed Makhloof, finally had his dream come true— a film festival in his hometown of Benghazi. He returned to Benghazi after three decades in exile because of his outspoken opposition to Muammar Gaddafi. In the beginning of his career, Makhloof worked as a journalist, but continued looking for a language closer to the […]

“Give it back to Benghazi,” cried out oil engineer Jumaa Mshiti with a hoarse voice at a sit-in at the Tahrir Square in Benghazi on February 15, demanding authorities retransfer the National Oil Company (NOC) from its current headquarters in Tripoli to Benghazi. Local activists and civil society organizations staged the sit-in to demand the […]

 Despite tensions that built up before the Friday preceding Libya’s second anniversary of the beginning of the revolution that toppled Mummar Gaddafi, the day passed without violence.  The government took some precautionary measures to ease any possible friction. A GNC delegation, headed by its Chairman Mohammed Magariaf and Prime Minister Ali Zeidan, went to Benghazi […]