Ali Ahmida participates as discussant on panel at MESA conference
Ali Ahmida, professor and chair of the Department of Political Science, served as a discussant on a panel titled 鈥淐olonial, Revolutionary, and Contemporary Libya: Emerging Research鈥 at the 2012 Middle East Studies Association (MESA) conference, which was held November 17-20, 2012, in Denver, Colorado.
The purpose of the panel was to present samples of new scholarship that has been developing on 20th century and contemporary Libya. The papers presented as part of this panel focused on Italian colonial rule (1911-1943), Qadhafi鈥檚 regime (1969-2011) and contemporary developments (2011-present).