Libya – Fawwaz Traboulsi

Articles AR Politics 2013 As-Safir

من يحاسِب؟ ومن يحاسِب مَن؟

Who Holds Accountable? And Who Holds Whom Accountable?

As-Safir

The issue is not merely the overthrow of the ruler, but preventing immunity, exile, and assassination from swallowing the revolutions' first achievement: the right to accountability.

Articles AR History Politics 2011 As-Safir

اليمن: حتى لا تخلف القبيلةُ… القبيلة

Yemen: Lest the Tribe Succeed... the Tribe

As-Safir

As Saleh's rule collapses, Yemen faces the risk of its revolution becoming a mere tribal power struggle, replacing one ruler with another from the same family instead of achieving the people's will.

Articles AR Politics 2011 As-Safir

ليسقط الطاغية

Down with the Tyrant

As-Safir

The farce is over — the criminal wore the clown's costume, a fifth below the poverty line. We win or we die — peoples don't die.

Articles AR Political Economy Politics 2009 As-Safir

أربعينية النظام الليبي: في الهدر والهذر

The Fortieth Anniversary of the Libyan Regime: On Waste and Nonsense

As-Safir

Forty years and "Brother Colonel" isn't taken seriously—that's precisely the secret of his survival: $46 billion a year and one million Libyans below the poverty line.