Dr. Jebril El-Abidi

It can be said that the Libyan army's restoration of control over more than 70 percent of Libyan territory is a national achievement. Yet the capital, Tripoli, and its surrounding areas remain under the control of militias. The word "militia" is originally a foreign term in the Arabic lexicon, and…

Anyone who has studied the concept of political geography since the Swedish thinker Rudolf Kjellén coined the term and expounded it, describing states as living organisms that grow and expand, knows why place has been put to use in conflict, and knows that the keys to the puzzle lie in strategic…

What sparked the wave of popular anger in Libya was the attempts to push through settlement projects, exploit the political division to sign and pass suspicious agreements, and bring them into effect. This amounts to tampering with a demographic makeup that has remained stable for thousands of…

After every United Nations-led political process has failed to end the division or bring Libya to elections, could the initiative put forward by Massad Boulos, the US president's adviser on African and Middle Eastern affairs, become a realistic way out of Libya's chronically tangled crisis? And is…

Fifteen years after the "Arab Spring", what were the accomplishments in the countries where it erupted but chaos, division and years of nothing? The "Arab Spring" swept Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria, Yemen and even war-torn Sudan. What did the "revolutions" of this spring achieve? Did they achieve…

Chatter on social media cannot be used to determine the value of any language, since most of these exchanges answer to no scientific standards, and most users of these platforms cannot even spell correctly, let alone observe the rules of grammar. Every language in the world has changed, as…

The Structured Dialogue Committee has concluded and presented us with recommendations copied from previous agreements, offering nothing new. Foremost among the recommendations is the formation of a new transitional government for no more than two years that is tasked with preparing for the…

After three years of war, killing, displacement within Sudan, and exile beyond its borders, violence continues to rage across large parts of Darfur, the Kordofan region, and Blue Nile State. There is no near hope for the war to end. On the contrary, Sudan forced recruitment has become rampant, as…

The anniversary of Libya’s February 17, 2011 revolution remains a bittersweet occasion. The fall of the dictatorship is rejoiced, but there is almost nothing left of this joy amid grief over the calamities that followed: a series of grave crises, failure to rebuild the state, erosion of state…

Nearly 14 years later, the the killing of US Ambassador Christopher Stevens in Benghazi in 2012 has resurfaced, on the anniversary of the September 2001 events (9/11), following a terrorist attack on the US consulate. The case has long been a source of controversy between Republicans and Democrats…