Ali Ahmida to publish book on Libyan genocide this August
Ali Ahmida, Ph.D., professor in and founding chair of the Department of Political Science at UNE.
Ali Ahmida, Ph.D., professor in and founding chair of the Department of Political Science at the 51品茶, will publish his forthcoming book on the forgotten Libyan genocide this August.
The book, 鈥淕enocide in Libya: Shar, a Hidden Colonial History,鈥 recovers the hidden history of fascist Italian concentration camps in Libya between 1929 and 1934 through Libyan survivors鈥 oral testimonies, which took over 10 years of fieldwork to collect.
The book links the Libyan genocide through cross-cultural and comparative readings to the colonial roots of Holocaust and genocide studies. It provides a new and original history of the genocide and is a key resource for readers interested in genocide and holocaust studies, colonial and post-colonial studies, and African and Middle Eastern studies. James C. Scott, Ph.D., Sterling Professor of political science at Yale University, called the Ahmida's book a "masterpiece of oral history" that "recaptures the full texture of a great but little known atrocity."
Ahmida is an expert on North African and Libyan relations and is one of three scholars chosen by the United Nations to work on The Libya Socioeconomic Dialogue Project.
The project is designed to provide a platform for a broad and inclusive range of Libyan experts and stakeholders to jointly formulate a long-term future vision for the socioeconomic development of Libya and to devise policy options that would enable Libyan decision-makers to realize that vision.
鈥淕enocide in Libya: Shar, a Hidden Colonial History鈥 is through Routledge and will ship after Aug. 7.
Ahmida's latest book, "Genocide in Libya: Shar, a Hidden Colonial History," will be released Aug. 7.