{"id":1282,"date":"2020-06-26T14:10:44","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T14:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/?p=1282"},"modified":"2020-06-26T14:10:44","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T14:10:44","slug":"ali-ahmida-to-publish-book-on-libyan-genocide-this-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/ali-ahmida-to-publish-book-on-libyan-genocide-this-august\/","title":{"rendered":"Ali Ahmida to publish book on Libyan genocide this August"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-rounded\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2020\/06\/Ali-Ahmida.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1284\" width=\"271\" height=\"271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2020\/06\/Ali-Ahmida.jpg 400w, https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2020\/06\/Ali-Ahmida-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2020\/06\/Ali-Ahmida-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 271px) 100vw, 271px\" \/><figcaption>Ali Abdullatif Ahmida, Ph.D.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cGenocide in Libya: Shar, a Hidden Colonial History\u201d this original research on the forgotten Libyan genocide, specifically recovers the hidden history of the fascist Italian concentration camps (1929 \u2013 1934) through the oral testimonies of Libyan survivors. This book links the Libyan genocide through cross-cultural and comparative readings to the colonial roots of the Holocaust and genocide studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Based on the survivors\u2019 testimonies, which took over ten years of fieldwork and research to document, this new and original history of the genocide is a key resource for readers interested in genocide and holocaust studies, colonial and post-colonial studies and African and Middle Eastern studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Professor Mahmood Mamdani of Columbia University and the world\u2019s leading scholar on Colonial genocide, endorsed the Ahmida\u2019s book as \u201cBased on oral, archival and published documentation, Ali Ahmida provides a damning condemnation of Italian colonialism in Libya and of the scholarship that so far has overlooked the scope and significance of the genocidal violence which enabled it. A genuine contribution to the literature on Libya, on colonialism and on studies of genocide.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>James C. Scott, Ph.D., Sterling Professor of political science and anthropology at Yale University, called the Ahmida&#8217;s book&nbsp;a &#8220;masterpiece of oral history&#8221; that &#8220;recaptures the full texture of a great but little known atrocity. The prose and the poetry of folk memory as well as the crosscurrents of regional variation are gripping and unforgettable.&nbsp; A people\u2019s suffering have been truly honored here.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more on UNE news <a href=\"https:\/\/www.une.edu\/news\/2020\/ali-ahmida-publish-book-libyan-genocide-august\">https:\/\/www.une.edu\/news\/2020\/ali-ahmida-publish-book-libyan-genocide-august<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"501\" height=\"752\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2020\/06\/image-70.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2020\/06\/image-70.png 501w, https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2020\/06\/image-70-200x300.png 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 501px) 100vw, 501px\" \/><figcaption>\u201cGenocide in Libya: Shar, a Hidden Colonial History\u201d is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Genocide-in-Libya-Shar-a-Hidden-Colonial-History\/Ahmida\/p\/book\/9780367468897\">available for pre-<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Genocide-in-Libya-Shar-a-Hidden-Colonial-History\/Ahmida\/p\/book\/9780367468897\">\u00a0 order<\/a>\u00a0through Routledge and will ship after Aug. 7.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cGenocide in Libya: Shar, a Hidden Colonial History\u201d this original research on the forgotten Libyan genocide, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-1282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publications-and-awards"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1282"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1290,"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282\/revisions\/1290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1282"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=1282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}