Legitimizing Qaddafi

By Mohamed Eljahmi September 23, 2009

Later today, Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi will address the United Nations General Assembly, shortly after Pres. Barack Obama has spoken. Qaddafi’s U.N. appearance will cap a long line of official ...

How ‘Compassionate’ Libya Treats Its Prisoners, and How the British Treat Theirs

By Mohamed Eljahmi September 8, 2009

The celebrations for — and the British government’s complicity in the release of — Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset Ali al-Megrahi highlights not only the lack of seriousness with which the ...

Politics & Policy

Reformed Rapprochement

By Mohamed Eljahmi November 20, 2007

On November 6, 2007 Senator Richard Lugar, the Ranking Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, called for rapid nomination of a U.S. ambassador to Libya; “We have to get ...

Politics & Policy

Libya Model for Disaster

By Mohamed Eljahmi February 1, 2007

On January 18, 2007, the European parliament issued a resolution urging EU member states to review their relations with Libya unless it frees five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor ...

Politics & Policy

Preconditions for Peace

By Mohamed Eljahmi July 28, 2006

It is no secret that Iran and Syria use Hezbollah and Hamas as proxies. The kidnapping operations in Israel would not have transpired without a green light from Tehran and ...

Politics & Policy

True to His Terrorist Ways

By Mohamed Eljahmi April 13, 2006

This week marks the 20th anniversary of the U.S. military strike against Libya. On April 14, 1986, President Ronald Reagan ordered the U.S. Air Force to attack military targets in ...

Politics & Policy

Bad Decision 101

By Mohamed Eljahmi March 20, 2006

Beginning on March 22, Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs will host a conference entitled “The Prospect for Democracy: A-Libyan-American Dialogue.” On the second and final day ...

Politics & Policy

The People Vs. Qadhafi

By Mohamed Eljahmi March 16, 2006

More than two years after the U.S. government began its rapprochement, how goes life in Libya? At first appearance, some may think Libyan strongman Muammar Qadhafi has reformed. Last week, ...