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The Man Who Went to War

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Last year, retired war correspondent Patrick Graham was listening to news of the Libyan revolution over the radio. He ended up mocking the guy on the radio, saying, “For fuck’s sake, at least get to Benghazi!” His wife responded with, “Well, why don’t you go?” A few days later, he … Read More

Libya’s Populist Uprising

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When the green shoots of the “Arab Spring” first sprouted in Tunisia (in late 2010, despite the media-embraced “Spring” descriptor) and quickly spread to Egypt, Bahrain and Yemen, scattering seeds across the entirety of North Africa and the Middle East, one of the favourite games of international observers was to … Read More

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