Books

Harris, Lillian Craig. Libya: Qadhafi’s Revolution and the Modern State. Westview Press,1986.

Hilsum, Lindsey. Sandstorm: Libya in the Time of Revolution. Faber and Faber, 2012.

Kaplan, Robert D. The Arabists: The Romance of an American Elite. Free Press, 1995.

Pargeter, Alison. Libya: The Rise and Fall of Qadaffi. Yale University Press,2012.

Richter, Paul. The Ambassadors: America’s Diplomats on the Front Lines. PaulRichter, Simon & Schuster, 2019.

Wehrey, Frederic. The Burning Shores: Inside the Battle for the New Libya. Farrar,Straus & Giroux, 2018.

Zuckoff, Mitchell. 13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened in Benghazi.Twelve, 2014.

Articles

“Embassy of the U.S. in Libya Stormed by aCrowd of 2,000,” New York Times, Dec. 3, 1979.

“Hangings in Tripoli Focus Attention on LibyanDissent” Washington Post, Apr. 23, 1984.

“Libyan Television Shows Executions of‘Traitors,’” Associated Press, Feb. 18, 1987.

“Libya: Football hooliganism or growing political violence?” Mideast Mirror, Jul. 15, 1996.

“Amnesty urges Libya deaths inquiry,” UPI,Jul. 25, 1996.

“Lockerbie trial: what happened when,” TheGuardian, Jan. 31, 2001.

“Coming to Terms: Fundamentalists or Islamists?” Middle East Quarterly, Spring 2003.

“Bush: Follow Libya’s Lead,” CBS News, Dec.22, 2003.

“How Kadafi Went From Foe to Ally,” LA Times,Sep. 4, 2005.

“Victory Ends 40 Years of Political Domination by Arafat’s Party,” Jan. 26, 2006.

“Libya: June 1996 Killings at Abu Salim Prison,” Human Rights Watch, Jun. 27, 2006.

“Political Islam and Foreign Policy in Europeand the United States,” Foreign Policy Analysis, 2007.

“TIMELINE: Key events since 2006 Hamas election victory,” Reuters, Jun. 20, 2007.

“As U.S. Rebuilt Ties with Libya, Human RightsConcerns Took a Back Seat,” Pro Publica, Feb. 23, 2011.

“Events of 2 years ago sparked current uprising in Libya,” PRI, Mar. 11, 2011.

“Check Out 3 Decades of Muammar Qadaffi Magazine Covers,” Business Insider, Mar. 21, 2011.

“Conflict in Libya: U.S. oil companies sit on sidelines as Gaddafi maintains hold,” Washington Post, Jun. 10, 2011.

“Abu Salim: walls that talk,” The Guardian, Sep.30, 2011.

“Gaddafi’s quixotic and brutal rule,” BBC,Oct. 20, 2011.

“Libya survivor describes 1996 prison massacre,” Al Jazeera, Oct. 21, 2011.

“Out of sight: Gaddafi buried as an outcast,”The Independent, Oct. 30, 2011.

“U.S. Presence in Libya: A Brief History,” ABCNews, 9/12/2012.

“Chris Stevens was committed to the US ForeignService,” Bay News 9, Sep. 12, 2012.

“J. ChristopherStevens, U.S ambassador to Libya, dies at 52,” Washington Post, Sep. 12, 2012.

“A Deadly Mix in Benghazi,” New York Times,Dec. 28, 2013.

“Wife of Abdullah a-Senussi: ‘Real truth mustbe exposed,’” BBC, Jul. 28, 2015.

“Between ISIS and afailed state: The saga of Libyan Islamists,” Brookings Institute, August 2015.

“The Legacy of Obama’s ‘Worst Mistake,’” The Atlantic, Apr. 15, 2016.

“Libya Today: From Arab Spring to failedstate,” Al Jazeera, May 30, 2017.  “Chronology of Libya’s Disarmament andRelations with the United States,” Arms Control Association, Jan. 2018.

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