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- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 2006, I published my first novel, 'In the Country of Men.' The publication of the book gave me a bigger platform to speak about my father's abduction and Libya's human-rights record.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the same way that Egypt and Libya conspired to 'disappear' my father and silence writers such as Idris Ali, they made me, too, to a far lesser extent, feel punished for speaking out.
- Powerful
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Arab Spring is a powerful and compelling response not only to an age of tyranny but also to the remnant chains of imperial influence.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
A revolution is not a painless march to the gates of freedom and justice. It is a struggle between rage and hope, between the temptation to destroy and the desire to build.
- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dreams have consequences.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My earliest memory of books is not of reading but of being read to. I spent hours listening, watching the face of the person reading aloud to me.
- Crisis
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- Nov 07, 2020
Civil war is a national crisis and also a private trauma: We suffer it collectively and in isolation.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Arab Spring, with all of its failings and failures, exposed the lie that if we are to live, then we must live as slaves. It was an attempt to undermine not only the orthodoxy of dictatorship but also an international political orthodoxy where every activity must be approved by the profit logic of the 'ledger.'
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need a father to rage against.
- Galleries
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like most dictators, Col Gaddafi detests the metropolis. His vision of Libya is a kind of Bedouin romantic medievalism, suspicious of universities, theatres, galleries and cafes, and so monitors the cities' inhabitants with paranoid suspicion.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the end, madness is worse than injustice, and justice far sweeter than freedom.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am, by instinct, wary of revolutions. The gathering of the masses fills me with trepidation.
- Democratically
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- Nov 07, 2020
From before I was born, we Arabs have been caught between two forces that, seemingly, cannot be defeated: our ruthless dictators, who oppress and humiliate us, and the cynical western powers, who would rather see us ruled by criminals loyal to them than have democratically elected leaders accountable to us.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can pinpoint the exact moment when I first began to think about what profession I should go into. It was 1978. I was seven and had just been handed over by the women of my family to the earnest and self-important gatherings of the men. I was no longer the responsibility of my aunts and older female cousins. I was now a man. This was a tragedy.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a young boy in Libya, it was hard to escape the conclusion that the women were the most feeling and most functional part of society.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020