Last week, Correspondents published an interview with Dr. Suliman Al-Shahomy, financial expert and founder and former chairman of the stock market, in which he presented his views regarding the economic and financial crisis in Libya. For more on this issue, Correspondents conducted an interview with Ramzi Al-Agha, the head of the liquidity crisis management committee […]

Since she was young, Wafaa Ghuaz has been obsessed reading and acquiring books and she has suffered from a serious lack of libraries and reading clubs in her hometown of Zuwarah. So she got together a group of young people in her city and established Zuwarah Book Club, the first of its kind. “Books are […]

Habib Abdel Salam Ghaith strokes Mohammad’s bald head, worrying about how to find the medicine his 9-year-old son needs. Mohammad has had cancer for two years yet the medicine is available in neither public hospitals nor in medical centers. Ghaith, 47, says the price of medicines used to treat cancer and other chronic diseases are […]

For nearly a century, the Muslim Brotherhood, founded by Sheikh al-Banna in 1928, experienced fateful political setbacks that saw its presence wax and wane. For nearly a century, the Muslim Brotherhood, founded by Sheikh al-Banna in 1928, experienced fateful political setbacks that saw its presence wax and wane. The Brotherhood’s first such setback was under […]

“Do it yourself and never speak to a nurse!” an ISIS member shouted at T.A., a radiologist at Ibn Sina Hospital in the strategic coastal town of Sirte, (where ISIS still maintains control), when the latter asked a female nurse colleague to pass him an X-ray cord underneath a  patient while he was holding him […]

Libya’s financial crisis has brought the Libyan Dinar to its lowest levels. Banks are suffering liquidity problems and the Central Bank is heading towards the deepest period of political polarization. To learn more about the issue, Correspondents spoke to Dr. Suliman Al-Shahomy, founder and the chairman of the former Libyan stock exchange. Libya’s financial crisis […]

“Don’t I have the right to lead a normal life?” wondered 40-year-old Fatima from her prison cell in the Jadida Prison for Women in Tripoli.  “Had I thought I would return to prison, I would not have gotten re-married and had children,” she said. Fatima had been imprisoned for murdering her former husband – also […]

“Shall we wait until this great human treasure is completely destroyed?” asked Libyan archeologist Fadel Quraini when speaking about the extent of the damage and theft of Libya’s ancient objects. Libya is home to the world’s largest Roman and Greek cities, namely Leptis and Cyrene. It also has the most precious mosaics in the world […]

Six months have passed since an armed militia snatched Riad Al-Shershari’s three children out of their mother’s grasp, directly in front of their school in Sorman town west of Tripoli. The family’s driver was shot in the feet trying to defend them. Al-Shershari, a businessman, told Correspondents that the militia’s last contact with him was […]

Hillary Clinton’s correspondence has been unfolding for over a year since an official public disclosure of her personal email account, which she used when she was Secretary of State. Among the recently published batch, there is a secret email on Libya during the February Revolution classified as “confidential” and dated April 2, 2011. It was […]