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On October 5, 2016, Ali Ahmida, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Political Science, was the guest on “Voices of the Middle East and North Africa,” a program on KPFA radio.

Ahmida was asked about the political, territorial and humanitarian crises in Libya after the 2011 uprising.

He commented that in order to make sense of the unraveling of the situation in Libya, one must take a critical look at the uprising’s leadership. “The leadership of this uprising was naïve and was spontaneous in many ways but did not think of what’s going to happen afterward,” he said. “The idea was we want democracy; we want the rule of law. But there was no urbanization. There was no vision to deal with the consequences of the revolution and also what would be alternatives to these dictatorships.”

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