Libya
Yesterday in Pulitzer Center's education office, we hosted a Google Hangout between Cairo-based journalist Sharif Abdel Kouddous and 9th graders at Staples High School in Westport, CT.
Experts agree that international intervention in Libya saved lives but that isn't happening in Syria—"a multi-sectarian, multiethnic cauldron" that defies easy resolution.
Pulitzer Center grantees Ellen Knickmeyer and William Wheeler join Arab Spring panel discussion at Elmhurst College.
The plight of sub-Saharan Africans attempting to migrate to Europe through Libya has not improved much in the "new" Libya.
Pulitzer Center grantee William Wheeler reflects on his experience in international reporting and the fraught path from daily journalism to long-form nonfiction.
The Qaddafi regime recruited many sub-Saharan Africans to serve as mercenaries. After the regime fell, a much larger number of innocent Africans working in Libya faced revenge attacks.
Because Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s army employed mercenaries from sub-Saharan Africa, more than a million innocent migrant laborers now find themselves targeted by rebels and ordinary Libyans.
"It doesn't matter how hard you think you are, how professional, when the smell of death hits your nostrils like that, you have to retch." Ayman Oghanna reports from a mortuary in Bani Walid, Libya.
Reporting from Tripoli, Pulitzer Center grantee William Wheeler looks at Libya's attempt to transform itself into a stable, peaceful and democratic country.
The revolution that toppled the regime of Col. Moammar Qaddafi brought Libya a sense of pride, hope and renewed engagement with the West, but ahead lies the challenge of building a democratic...
Wartime romance is budding in Libya. After fighting to take down Qaddafi, the country's once least eligible bachelors are now being seen in a new light.
Journalist and author Reese Erlich talks about Libyan dictator Moamar Gaddafi's death and whether the Assad regime in Syria might be the next to fall.
Creativity is blooming in Libya--the country's artists are finally able to show their work now that Muammar Qaddafi is no longer in power.