Ali Ahmida presents two lectures at Georgetown University

On April 27, 2011, Ali Abdullatif Ahmida, Ph.D., professor and chair of the Department of Political Science, presented a lecture entitled "Why Qaddafi Already Lost and the Ghosts of Libya's Colonial Past" at Georgetown University.

On April 28, 2011, Ahmida presented a second lecture entitled "Al-Koni's Saharan Imagination: Engaging Modernity, History, and The Nation-State." This lecture focused on the contemporary Libyan novelist Ibrahim al-Koni.

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

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