Before you have politics, you need a political community, a group of people who see their lives as belonging to the same past, present, and future. Perhaps because of the trauma of the past, Libya today is ignoring its history. We can see the next stage of the Libyan revolution as rediscovering Libyan history and reclaiming the history that Qaddafi stole from us. In Libya “The Dead” have been awakened. As Harry Halem’s book makes definitively clear, the story of the Senussi family is indeed the history of Libya.

Source: Libya Today September 08, 2022 04:51 UTC