The media of Libya consists of a broad range of newspapers,TV channels,radio stations,and websites mostly set up during or after the Libyan Civil War,which removed previously tight restrictions on freedom of the press and freedom of speech. By the summer of 2012,there were over 200 registered newspapers,over 20 TV channels,and 200 radio stations.
Wahbi Ahmed El-Bouri Arabic:وهبيالبوريwas a Libyan politician,diplomat,writer and translator. He was the foreign minister of Libya from 1957 to 1958 and later from 1965 to 1966. He was also a petroleum minister of Libya and a Libyan Ambassador in the United Nations and the founder of the Islamic Cultural Center of New York the first mosque and Islamic school in the city - 1967 also nominated by the king as a Prime Minister in 1969.
Maria Maalouf is a Lebanese Christian-Maronite journalist broadcaster,publisher and writer known for her controversial stances against Hezbollah and the Syrian regime. In March 2017,Maalouf garnered attention after publicly calling on Israel to murder Hezbollah secretary-general Hassan Nasrallah on her Twitter account. She was subsequently charged and brought in for questioning under sedition charges In return,she sued Nasrallah on murder and rape charges.
Umar Abdullah el-Muhayshi,also transliterated as Omar al-Meheshi,was a Libyan army officer and a member of the Libyan Revolutionary Command Council (RCC) that ruled Libya after the 1969 Libyan coup d'état.
Libya Al Ahrar is a Libyan TV channel broadcast by satellite from its headquarters in Doha. The channel was created in 2011 during the Libyan Civil War. It presents news,opinions,analysis,photo and video reports about Libya in specific and the region in a wider scope. It focuses on Libya’s revolution and future toward building a democratic state.
Mohamed Yassine Mansouri is a Moroccan dignitary who has served as the director of Morocco's external intelligence agency,the General Directorate for Studies and Documentation (DGED) under King Mohammed VI since February 16,2005.
On 12th February 2015,the Islamic State (IS) released a report in their online magazine Dabiq showing photos of 21 Egyptian Christian construction workers that they had kidnapped in the city of Sirte,Libya,and whom they reported had been killed. The men,who came from different villages in Egypt,13 of them from Al-Our,Minya Governorate,were kidnapped in Sirte in two separate attacks on 27 December 2014,and in January 2015. On 15 February,a video was subsequently released showing their murder.
218TV is a Libyan free-to-air satellite channel founded in 2015 in Amman,Jordan. The channel provides several news broadcasts along with various social and entertainment shows.
The Western Libya campaign was a military campaign initiated on 4 April 2019 by the Operation Flood of Dignity of the Libyan National Army,which represents the Libyan House of Representatives,to capture the western region of Libya and eventually the capital Tripoli held by the United Nations Security Council-recognised Government of National Accord. The Government of National Accord regained control over all of Tripoli in June 2020 and the LNA forces withdrew from the capital,after fourteen months of fighting.
Hanan al-Barassi was a Libyan activist for human rights and women's rights.
Khadījah Muhammad Abdullah Al-Jahamī,also knowns as Bint al-Watan,was a Libyan writer and radio broadcaster,who is considered one of the pioneers of advocating for women's rights since the Italian colonial period in Libya.
Abdul Hamid Muhammad Abdul Rahman al-Dbeibeh is a Libyan politician and businessman who is the prime minister of Libya under the Government of National Unity (GNU) in Tripoli. Dbeibeh was appointed on 15 February 2021 through the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum,and he was expected to hold the office until elections on 24 December 2021,which were later postponed.
Libya National Channel (LNC),also known as Libya's National Television Channel or simply Libya's Channel,is a Libyan television news channel. The channel was established after the fall of Muammar al-Gaddafi in 2011,and is a member of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and the Arab States Broadcasting Union (ABSU). The channel aims to provide the Libyan people with truthful news and objective information,as well as programs that do not advocate the views of individual parties or groups. LNC purchases and broadcasts programs from other Arab broadcasters and production companies.
Ali Kanna Sulayman is a Libyan lieutenant general of Tuareg origin. He was the commander of Muammar Gaddafi's southern forces in the First Libyan Civil War. After the end of the Fezzan campaign,he fled to Agadez and helped other Gaddafi loyalists,most notably air force commander Ali Sharif Al-Rifi,escape to Niger.
Sana Daoudi is a professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Première Ligue club Guingamp. Born in France,she has represented her country of birth and Morocco at youth and senior levels,respectively.
The Battle of Essien,also known as the Battle of Isin,took place in October 1957,in the village of Essien,located south of the Libyan town of Ghat. This significant engagement emerged from the complex dynamics of the Algerian War of Independence against French colonial rule.
Sofiene Chourabi,born 24 June 1982 in Soliman,Tunisia. Is a Tunisian journalist,activist,cyber-activist and blogger,who opposed the regime of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. He has been missing in Libya since 8 September 2014.
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