Libya

Echoes of Populism and Terrorism in Libya’s Online News Reporting

10 May 2018

Echoes of Populism and Terrorism in Libya’s Online News Reporting
Letizia Lombezzi Article This article focuses on news reporting in Libya, assessing both official and citizen journalism. Special attention is paid to online resources, primarily spontaneous posts written in Arabic. Social media shows the emergence of citizen journalism together with so-called User-generated Content. Both have proved capable of creating legitimacy. Political inclinations, including Islamic ideology and its religious claims, are presented, supported, or criticized by ordinary citizens who…

Article

Arab Women’s Changing Identities, Activisms and Resistances in a Changing Region

10 May 2014

Arab Women’s Changing Identities, Activisms and Resistances in a Changing Region
Sahar Khamis Editorial The wave of uprisings which swept the Arab world in 2011 did not just instigate a "political awakening" that has shaken the power structures in a number of Arab countries and resulted in dictators fleeing their countries, resigning from office, or facing brutal death. Rather, it also instigated a "social awakening" that has shaken Arab societies' commonly held assumptions about gender roles and women's ability…

Editorial

Women and Media: Libyan Female Journalists from Gaddafi Media to Post- revolution: Case Study

10 May 2014

Women and Media: Libyan Female Journalists from Gaddafi Media to Post- revolution: Case Study
Fatima El Issawi Article This article examines the representation of women in Libyan national traditional media before, during and after the February 2011 revolution that led to the overthrow of the Gaddafi regime. What roles did female journalists assume within national traditional newsrooms and how did these roles evolve from activism in the defense of women’s causes and the official revolutionary ideals of the former regime to spreading the…

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Cyberactivists Paving the Way for the Arab Spring: Voices from Egypt, Tunisia and Libya

10 Nov 2012

Cyberactivists Paving the Way for the Arab Spring: Voices from Egypt, Tunisia and Libya
Sahar Khamis, Mohammed El-Nawawy Article The wave of Arab revolutions and uprisings that has been shaking all corners of the Arab Middle East since 2011 and that has come to be known as the Arab Spring owed a major portion of its success to online activism. The spark that ignited these revolutions in the offline world was ignited by the Arab cyberactivists’ well-coordinated campaigns, calling for the toppling of corrupt…

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Review: The Arab Revolution: The Lessons from the Democratic Uprising

10 May 2012

Review: The Arab Revolution: The Lessons from the Democratic Uprising
Marek Cejka Book Review Filiu's book The Arab Revolution: The Lessons from the Democratic Uprising provides an overview of the context of the indirect circumstances of the Arab Spring and also takes into account the related sociological and psychological factors, which makes the book more interdisciplinary. It focuses on events in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya but also covers other parts of the MENA region.

Book Review