If, one day, a people desires to live, then fate must answer their call
Najla AbdurrahmanThere are many ways to take the life of a human being. There’s the Mubarak way: allow corrupt police officers to smash an innocent young man’s skull in broad daylight in front of witnesses, then let those officers go with little more than a slap on the wrist. There’s the Ben Ali way: over a lifetime deprive him of his dignity and means of supporting his family until he snaps and, out of sheer desperation, takes his own life...
From no news to good news: calls for protest on the 17th of February
Sandwiched between Tunisia, as it surmounts the impossible, and Egypt, as it wakes the sleeping giant, Libya has been, for the last 41 years, seemingly acquiescent to Gaddafi’s regime, despite its remarkable, historical struggle for independence against Mussolini’s Italy. Since the earliest days of the Tunisian uprising, many people have speculated as to whether the Sidi Bouzid contagion would infect the Libyan masses...
Thanks Tunisia for Freeing our Imaginations
As millions of Tunisians courageously took to the streets, in some of the most awe-inspiring events of this young century, my imagination—and the imaginations of thousands of Libyans—began to bubble fervently. What would it be like if we awoke one morning to find that after 41 years, Gaddafi was no longer in power?
An Innocent Retreat: What do we have to gain or lose?
Enough Gaddafi!
There is nothing worse than feeling obliged to justify why you have done something that seems so trivial to you—or even positive to you—because others perceive it as blasphemous. You wake up one day, you check your messages, and you find an invitation to a gathering of people who share so much with you. They share the same country of origin, same religion, same experiences here in the States, same family concerns, or maybe they even share the same history....
How to Celebrate Libya’s Independence
By: Ahmed Addarrat
t has been 58 years since a deciding Haitian vote at the United Nations granted Libya her independence. For myself, and I believe for many other Libyans, this day comes with a diluted sense of joy. Over the past 40 years, Libyans have endured another chapter of tyranny at the hands of one of their own, transitioning from colony to sovereign nation to dictatorship...
Unraveling the Knot
By: Abdulla Darrat
Enough Gaddafi Blog: Human Rights Watch (HRW) was recently given permission to report on Libya’s human rights conditions from within the country. Needless to say, the opportunity is unprecedented, given Libya’s isolation and the Gaddafi regime’s allergic reaction to any form of scrutiny—whether from inside or outside...
Reclaiming Libya for Libyans
By Najla Abdurrahman
In musing about the creation of this organization and its mission statement, I can't help but be struck by the subtle irony of the name itself—Enough Gaddafi—for it is acutely emblematic of the central tragedy of the Libyan experience over the past forty years: namely, that no matter how much the majority of its citizens (and certainly those of us who make up the Libyan diaspora) might wish, the Libyan people have been unable to separate their lives, their image in the world...
?Accountability Anyone
By: Ahmed Addarrat
Recent allegations of abuses in women’s shelters in Benghazi shed light on the Gaddafi regime’s embarrassing lack of accountability, despite attempts to revamp the Gaddafi brand. After all, how can there be accountability in a country ruled by men—men who are beyond reprisal—and not laws? To most people familiar with Libya, these recent allegations indicate more of the same in a country committed to changing its image...
The High Price of Accomodating Tyrants
Asma Yousef (Enough! Blog)
At his United Nations debut, Colonel Moammar Gaddafi of Libya reminded the rest of the world of what it already knew, that he has completely lost touch with reality. Gaddafi’s visit to the United States, the first in forty years, offered him an opportunity to redeem himself in the aftermath of his unabashed warm welcome to the only man convicted of bombing the Pan Am 103 airliner over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988...