Posts Tagged ‘Libya’

• The Libyan Woman’s New Libya

  November 15th, 2011 This piece was written by a Guest Contributor, Summar Shammakhi. The interim Libyan leader, Mustapha Abdul Jalil declared...

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• Libya’s Girl Executioners and Gun-Brandishing Newscasters

  September 6th, 2011 Nisreen Mansour al Forgani, centre, with fellow Gaddafi female militia members. She is now under armed rebel guard...

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• Updates: Amina Abdullah and Eman al-Obeidi

  June 10th, 2011 Two important updates on stories that we have covered over the past couple months! First, Sara Yasin wrote recently...

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• The Symbol of Eman al-Obeidi

  April 4th, 2011 On March 26, Eman al-Obeidi burst into the Rixos Hotel in Tripoli and told reporters that fifteen of...

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• An Interview with Yusra Tekbali on Libya

  March 24th, 2011 MMW Contributor Yusra Tekbali was in Libya during the outbreak of the February 17 Revolution. She was evacuated...

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• “Libyamazons” and the Libyan Uprising

  March 14th, 2011 Moammar Gaddafi’s outlandish behavior has long been a gift to comedians. Making fun of the Colonel clearly does...

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• Desert Romance: Exoticization and Interfaith Marriage

  April 28th, 2010 “I got married secretly in a mosque,” says Elisabeth Elhazza. Her words are the title of an article...

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• The media’s surface-level fixation on Libya’s female bodyguards

  December 29th, 2008 The first thing anyone, male or female, Arab or not ever says to me when they find out...

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