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 ...

AJDABIYA, LIBYA - Libyan rebel fighter Jaad Jumaa Hashmi cranks up the volume on his pickup truck's stereo when he heads into battle against Moammar Gadhafi's forces. A musician himself, he looks for ...

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 ...

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 ...