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Articles by Ali Ahmida
A selection of published scholarly articles, essays, and editorial work by Dr. Ali Ahmida
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“An Introductory Study on the Status, Challenges and Prospects of the Libyan Society”. United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA). (January 2020).
“Confronting Silence and Cover-Up of the Colonial Genocide in Libya: Researching Italian Fascism from the Standpoint of Its Victim”. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (3): 391–395.
Recent Publications
“When the Subaltern Speak: Memory of Genocide in Colonial Libya, 1929 to1933” Italian Studies, 61:2 (Autumn, 2006)
“Beyond Orientalist, Colonial and Nationalist Models: a critical mapping of Maghribi studies (1951–2000)”. Third World Quarterly. 30:6 (July 23, 2009)
Colonialism & Genocide Studies
“The Post Colonial State and Social Transformation in Libya”. Tabayyan. 2012
“Libya, Social Origin of Dictatorship and the Challenge for Democracy”. Journal of the Middle East and Africa. 2012
“The Libyan National Transnational Council: Social Bases, Membership and Political Trends”. Al Jazeera Centre for Studies. 2011
Libyan Society & Transformation
Guest Editor, “Beyond Colonialism and Nationalism in North Africa,” Arab Studies Quarterly, (Spring, 1998)
“Inventing or Recovering Civil society in the Middle East,” Critique, (Spring, 1997)
"Colonialism, State Formation and Civil Society in North Africa: Theoretical and Analytical Problems,” International Journal of Islamic and Arabic Studies, XI:I (1994). An Arabic translation of this article is published in the journal Arab Future.