While Libyans and other supporters of the Arab Spring celebrate after finally bringing down the government and “decapitating” the regime by killing Khadafi, I thought to myself, “why isn’t there any ...

Rap music is becoming the soundtrack to the revolution in Libya. In the eastern coastal town of Benghazi, which hosted the February rebel uprising against the country's dictator Muammar al-Gaddafi, an ...

Many of the militia fighters who rose up and ousted former dictator Moammar Gadhafi in 2011 have refused to lay down their arms and are still challenging the post-revolutionary government. Yet the ...

Libya’s vibrant music scene was crushed when Colonel Muammar Qaddafi came to power. He insisted on handpicking which artists could be heard on the radio. Music about politically sensitive topics was ...

The audio for this feature is no longer available. Join NPR's Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep as he travels this month to Tunisia, Libya and Egypt to tell the stories of North Africans one year ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Matthew Millan’s short documentary introduces us to the world of Libya’s ...