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Jan 27, 2015

Eljarh: What Today’s Bloody Attack in Tripoli Means for Libya

By Mohamed Eljarh

Rafik Hariri Center Nonresident Fellow Mohamed Eljarh writes for Foreign Policy on the attack in Tripoli:

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MENASource

Jan 21, 2015

The Libya Conundrum

By Karim Mezran and Tarek Radwan

What is happening in Libya? And how will Egypt react? Libya today has devolved into a violent political struggle between two major blocs: the internationally recognized, Tobruk-based parliament versus Tripoli’s parliament and administration.

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Jan 21, 2015

Eljarh: “In Libya There is a Legitimacy Crisis”

By Mohamed Eljarh

BBC quotes Rafik Hariri Center Nonresident Fellow Mohamed Eljarh on the legitimacy crisis in Libya:

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Jan 20, 2015

Mezran and Radwan: The Libya Conundrum

By Karim Mezran and Tarek Radwan

Rafik Hariri Center Senior Fellow Karim Mezran and Associate Director Tarek Radwan cowrite for The Cairo Review of Global Affairs on Egypt’s reaction to Libya’s political struggle:

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In the News

Jan 11, 2015

Eljarh: In War-Torn Libya, It’s Life on the Edge

By Mohamed Eljarh

Rafik Hariri Center Nonresident Fellow Mohamed Eljarh writes for Foreign Policy on ongoing developments in Libya:

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In the News

Dec 28, 2014

Eljarh on Libya: “This is an Escalation in Violence”

By Mohamed Eljarh

The Financial Times quotes Rafik Hariri Center Nonresident Fellow Mohamed Eljarh on the recent air attacks on Libya’s third largest city of Misurata: 

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Dec 24, 2014

Atlantic Council Interview with Libyan Foreign Minister Mohammed al-Dairi

By MENASource

Libya is becoming increasingly polarized, as rival blocs engage in a violent political struggle for power and the country’s resources. The United Nations is attempting to broker negotiations between the elected, internationally-recognized assembly and government in Tobruk and the self-declared authorities in Tripoli. Prospects for a political solution, however, appear dim, especially as regional states […]

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Issue Brief

Dec 23, 2014

The case for a new federalism in Libya

By Karim Mezran and Mohamed Eljarh

Following Muammar Qaddafi’s ouster more than three years ago, Libya fragmented, and the absence of a capable central government opened up the space for a violent political struggle over the country’s key resources and state institutions that continues today. Given Libya’s troubled history with centralization, there is a need for a rethink about a post-revolutionary […]

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Dec 19, 2014

Libya: A Failed State Threatens the Region

By Africa Center

Bottom Line Up Front:•  Nearly three years after the collapse of Muammar Qadhafi’s regime, Libya has become a failed state, reaching levels of instability never before experienced in North Africa and the Sahel •  More than 1,700 competing clans, regional and Islamist militias are vying over control of what remains of the state; some radical […]

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Dec 18, 2014

International Actors Undermine Libya’s Hopes for Peace

By MENASource

In an interview with the New Atlanticist, senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East Karim Mezran, argues that international actors are undermining UN efforts to broker peace in Libya. “If all these external forces support troops on the ground, then the push for war is much stronger than the […]

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