Wednesday, August 26th, 2009
I was proud and thrilled when Sen. Edward Kennedy, at a Senate session on human rights, read from an oped I published in the Washington Post about human rights violations in Libya. May he rest in peace.
Archive for the 'Libya' Category
Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
By Mona Eltahawy June 17, 2009 Toronto Globe and Mail If Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi was visiting your country and asked to meet 700 women, apparently as part of his mission to “save European women,” what would you do? Instead of telling him to save Libya’s own women first, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi – [...]
Thursday, September 4th, 2008
By Mona Eltahawy NEW YORK — As Condoleezza Rice becomes the first U.S. secretary of state to visit Libya in 55 years, Fathi al-Jahmi will still remain in the cockroach-infested hospital room where he has been held against his will for months. You don’t know who Fathi al-Jahmi is? Ask vice presidential candidate Joe Biden. [...]
Tuesday, December 11th, 2007
10 billion euros. That’s the amount of business deals finalised in Paris today between French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, on his first visit to France in 34 years. Sarkozy apparently decided to play deaf to the complaints of his own top rights official who spoke out against the visit of Gaddafi, [...]
Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
By Mona Eltahawy June 17, 2009 Toronto Globe and Mail If Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi was visiting your country and asked to meet 700 women, apparently as part of his mission to “save European women,” what would you do? Instead of telling him to save Libya’s own women first, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi – [...]
Thursday, September 4th, 2008
By Mona Eltahawy NEW YORK — As Condoleezza Rice becomes the first U.S. secretary of state to visit Libya in 55 years, Fathi al-Jahmi will still remain in the cockroach-infested hospital room where he has been held against his will for months. You don’t know who Fathi al-Jahmi is? Ask vice presidential candidate Joe Biden. [...]
Tuesday, December 11th, 2007
10 billion euros. That’s the amount of business deals finalised in Paris today between French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, on his first visit to France in 34 years. Sarkozy apparently decided to play deaf to the complaints of his own top rights official who spoke out against the visit of Gaddafi, [...]
