Ali Ahmida presents lecture on Libya at the University of Washington - Seattle

On April 4, 2011, Ali Abdullatif Ahmida, Ph.D., professor and chair of the Department of Political Science, presented a lecture titled "Libya: Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democratic Uprising' at the university's Middle East Center, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies.

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.