Crowd-Sourcing Revolutionary Libyan History: Project Idea & Description

*Note: I don’t have time at the moment to translate this into French and Arabic, so anyone willing to do so is more than welcome—otherwise, I’ll try to get to it later this month. We all know that reliable texts on Libya are all too rare; this was certainly the case pre-February 17th, and following the end of the Gaddafi regime, we’ve seen the rise of armchair experts cropping up—seemingly out of nowhere—to speculate on the future of the new Libyan state. The idea for this project sprang out of the work we collaboratively did to compile the Gaddafi Crimes master list, which relied on personal testimonies crowd-sources from Twitter, as well as the few accessible human rights reports from Amnesty and Human Rights Watch, and the accounts of dissidents documenting Gaddafi’s brutality throughout his 42 years in power. Objectives:

A collaborative online bibliography of works pertaining to revolutionary history

Multi-lingual titles to reflect the broadest range of views and widest possible audience (I expect predominately works in English, French, Arabic and Italian)

Crowd-sources reviews of titles, in order to present as objective as possible reactions, appraisals and evaluations of supposed “experts” on the North African revolutions—in order to educate, as widely as possible, Libyans interested in their own history, as well as outsiders who have no reliable base on which to evaluate the quality of these texts.

Locate a web-site host to feature these and launch an inter-active site to collect, document and respond to “academic” accounts of Libyan revolutionary history

The following is a brief list of titles I’ve either purchased, read, or pre-ordered in English, French and Arabic. I am hoping to have reviews prepared in the next month or so for each of them. If we all contribute a paragraph summary/book review, we’ll be able to spread information on critical revolutionary history from a broad base of opinions and shared, deep knowledge of the country. This list is by no means exhaustive; it is, unfortunately, all I’ve had time to start on so far. Please feel free to make suggestions. Texts in English Rana Jawad. Tripoli Witness. James Petras. The Arab Revolt and the Imperialist Counterattack. John R. Bradley. After the Arab Spring : how Islamists hijacked the Middle East revolts. Alison Pargeter. Libya: The Rise and Fall of Qaddafi. Lindsey Hilsum. Sandstorm: Libya in the Time of Revolution. Ronald Bruce St. John. Libya: From Colony to Revolution.

الكتب في اللغة العربية

زنقة زنقة سّفاح .المثلثي محمد مصراتة مدينة في فبراير ٧١ ثورة من احداث و شواهد: الرجال ذات. القويري حسن عمر الرعب جماهيرية نهاية .صبرا حسن

Des Livres en Français Ahmed Bensaada. Arabesque Américaine : le rôle des Etats-Unis dans les révoltes de la rue arabe.

Marie-Lys Lubrano. Un Taxi Pour Benghazi. Mezri Haddad. La Face Cachée de la Révolution Tunisienne : Islamisme et occident, une alliance à haute risque. Kamel Khelifa. La Rue Arabe Sonne l’Heure de la Liberté : autopsie d’un complot de la Géopolitique. Delphine Minoui. Tripoliwood. Alexandre Najjar. Anatomie d’un Tyran: Mouammar Kadhafi. Pierre Marie Vincent. Journal d’un médecin en temps de guerre : Libya Hurra ! Mohamed Albichari. Le cauchemar libyen