The ancient theater in Sabratha, Libya
Anarchy in post-Gaddafi Libya sends me into storage to find photos I took on my trip there in 2004
How I got to Libya one month after the embargo was lifted
Ten years ago the US lifted its embargo on Libya. I landed a month later. It was complicated
Did Gaddafi give Sarkozy 50m euros?
France’s dealings in Africa have often been sordid but Libya had seemed a break from this tradition
A vial of Saharan sand from the Acacus region in Libya
The Acacus felt so remote that, now, only something as material as sand confirms I was really there
Seif al-Islam captured in the Sahara
Last of the Gaddafi clan was found in the Libyan desert near Ubari, which I visited in 2004
Dreamy visions of Gaddafi at the London Review of Books
Hugh Roberts slams NATO for not negotiating with a man who vowed to fight to the last drop of blood
Are American conservatives the new French?
Libya suggests that conservatives want chest-beating glory more than they want success
The Gaddafi family photo album
Gaddafi made himself a celebrity. Is that why the Times decided to publish his stolen family album?
Gaddafi’s mercenaries reveal all
They are the ‘smart money’ in the stockmarket battlefield and started to flee two weeks ago
The Libya my family knew in the 1960s
These archival videos make Libya look more modern than it was but many who knew it then loved it
Mabrouk, ya Seif al-Islam!
Gaddafi’s son shows up in the night. Did he accidentally reveal where his father is hiding?
They are dancing in Tripoli
Suddenly, the rebels have taken the heart of Libya’s capital and Gaddafi’s end is near
Libya and the end of the neo-colonial argument
Libyans have asked the international community for help; there’s no colonial aggression in doing it
What is in Gaddafi’s Green Book, Part One
In his infamous Green Book, Gaddafi offers his unorthodox solutions to the problem of democracy
What is in Gaddafi’s Green Book, Part Two
In his infamous Green Book, Gaddafi offers his unorthodox solutions on socialism and society
The scene in liberated Benghazi in eastern Libya
The first detailed images out of Libya show thousands in Benghazi celebrating Gaddafi’s demise
Look in his glasses: Gaddafi speaks to no one
Gaddafi speaks but you can see the reflection in his sunglasses: he has no audience.
The surreal experience of visiting Libya
With a Libyan human rights activist, racing through the Tripoli medina alleys to avoid eavesdroppers