Libya

Over the month of January, we at Migrant-Rights.org have covered cases of abuse against migrant workers in Lebanon, Jordan, Libya, Qatar, the UAE, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Kuwait. Following our documentation of several cases of suicide and attempted suicide by domestic workers in Kuwait, the Kuwait Times has published an expose on the subject. [...]

According to Forbes (2006), she is the richest woman in the Middle East, with assets totaling $5.5 billion. Today she has found a way to merge business and do-gooding for the planet, setting an example for future environmental philanthropists and clean technology experts. Shari Arison, who inherited the Carnival Cruise Line’s fortune and her late [...]

As a Palestinian and an Arab I was extremely proud to see such a large contingent of athletes from the Arab World participating in this year’s Olympics. Even though they are being held in Beijing, one of the most repressive nations in the world, the Chinese people themselves have a tremendous and rich culture and [...]

A while ago, the assistant editor of Destiny, a South African women’s magazine, emailed me asking for help in finding information on successful Libyan women online. Unsurprisingly she had found very little, since what information there is about Libyan women does not fit the criteria of ‘successful’. While women like Ibtisam Ben Amer, who recently [...]

Every so often I get a reminder of the appropriateness of Libya’s second name, the geographical hyphen, something I probably first started thinking about on my first day of school when I had to explain to the teacher where exactly Libya is situated on the world map.
Often it seems that what is known about Libya [...]

Libyan bloggers have recently been talking about the controversy over Libyan attorney Wafa Bu’esa’s first novel Hunger Has Other Faces. (Al Jazeera’s report) The novel, written in the first-person for “dramatic effect” as the writer says, tells the story of a girl who is forced by “living circumstances” to leave a stereotypically cloistered Libya and go [...]

Nathaniel Naddaf-Hafrey wonders: Can Comics Change the Arab World?

“I went back to my Arab heritage to draw from its design calligraphy, myths and legends, I tried to incorporate them all into the character. Manga usually features Japanese culture, and I wanted to introduce some Arabian mysticism to the market.”
Asia Alfasi has taken part in [...]

Reorganising my dad’s I came across this arresting title, Alfiya mukarrara fi al-amrath al-nafsiya almu3tabara( ‘the thousand’ Alfiya repeated on important psychological illnesses) a book-length poem which combines the many talents of Dr. Salim 3amar: the first professor of Psychology in the newly independent Tunisia’s national university, he has published over 300 research papers and [...]