Ali Ahmida interviewed by BBC radio on Libya's new prime minister

Ali Abdullatif Ahmida, Ph.D., professor and chair of the UNE political science program, was interviewed about Libya's National Congress election of former diplomat and lawmaker Ali Zaidan as the country's new prime minister on BBC Radio's Up All Night program on Oct. 15, 2012. 

Ahmida gave his views on the challenges facing the newly appointed prime minister, including the disarming of the country's militias and mending ties with the U.S. in the wake of the killing of U.S. diplomats. Listen to the six-minute interview at 19:08 minutes into the program.

Ahmida 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 other recent interviews.