Tag: Libya

  • Nation & World

    Power of photography

    Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist gave the Houghton Library’s Philip and Frances Hofer Lecture on the Art of the Book.

    5 minutes
    Photographer Lynsey Addario at combat outpost Vegas in the Korengal Valley, Afghanistan on October 14, 2007.
  • Nation & World

    None if by sea

    Radcliffe fellow and former director of advocacy and communications for Doctors Without Borders helped rescue 77,000 Mediterranean immigrants over four years — until politicians shut down the operation.

    11 minutes
    MY Phoenix, a search and rescue ship and a Swedish coast guard ship rescue 450 people.
  • Nation & World

    The book club goes online

    Five of Harvard’s regional centers are teaming up on an outreach program to teachers that takes them on a literary world tour, through an online book club featuring readings that illuminate ordinary life in Libya, Morocco, the Dominican Republic, Russia, and Nigeria.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Power, personified

    In a talk on his book “The Rise and Fall of Arab Presidents for Life,” Professor Roger Owen described how the Arab world’s dictators came to power — and how their curious political network helped fuel the eventual uprisings against some of them.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    New hope for Libyan democracy

    Middle East experts are optimistic that democracy may yet flourish in war-torn Libya, now that leader Moammar Gadhafi has been deposed.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    For Libya, ‘no compromise’ in sight

    Libyans want freedom, but the road to democracy is paved with unanswered questions. With the country torn by internal warfare, former Libyan diplomat Ali Suleiman Aujali and other experts gathered at the Harvard Kennedy School to look for answers.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    The tipping point

    Seemingly overnight, people in the Mideast and North Africa have risen in anger to demand more freedom. Is this the beginning of democracy in the Arab world, or a new era of political chaos? Harvard analysts offer insights on what is likely to come next.

    14 minutes