Spoken Libyan Arabic Eerik Dickinson
Publisher: Sky Publishing

2011 has already proven lie to the idea that the Arab world ever needed foreign help in order to achieve democracy; and now it could prove false the notion that the American administration and other Western governments ever cared about human rights or self determination. When the artist showed slides of her work and spoke, there was something nearly sacred about the quality of the silence: a determined and committed stillness. Gaddafi did not stay on top for 42 years without ensuring that his population had little room to complain. People I've spoken to on the phone have since gone missing, picked up by Libyan intelligence, their fate - only God knows. They kept coming until every seat was taken. There, according to Africans I have spoken to with direct knowledge, Libyans enjoyed the highest living standard on the Continent. As The Associated Press reported, Mr. Moreno-Ocampo spoke on Friday morning, following an ultimatum from the Libyan government telling civilians to leave the eastern rebel stronghold of Benghazi or face attack. Unlike Tunisia or Egypt where a halfway credible argument could be made that the population was suffering from exploding food prices and a vast wealth gap, Gaddafi's Libya, officially called Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, is very different. The words “Mahadesh yermi” for “don't shoot” are characteristically spoken in Egyptian Arabic, while Libyans from Benghazi would say, “Matermey” for “don't shoot.” “Dr. Unfortunately, this will be done gunned down in a police station.