Ali Ahmida presents lecture at the Brecht Forum

On June 8, 2011, Ali Abdullatif Ahmida, Ph.D., professor and chair of the Department of Political Science, presented a lecture entitled “The Ghosts of Libya's Colonial Past & Why Qaddafi's Regime Failed?” at the Brecht Forum in New York. The lecture was part of the Elombe Brath Global Africa Lecture Series. View a video of the lecture.

Ahmida, who was born in Libya, is the author of The Making of Modern Libya: State Formation, Colonialization and Resistance, and several other books on Libya and North Africa.  Find out more about Ahmida and read and listen to a number of his recent interviews and the national media.