Ali Ahmida presents lecture on Libya at the University of Delaware

On April 21, 2011, Ali Abdullatif Ahmida, Ph.D., professor and chair of the Department of Political Science, presented a lecture titled "The Sahara as Contested Space: The View from Libyan History" at the University of Delaware, as part of a series on titled "Tensions."

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 with the national media.