成人直播 Center for Global Humanities presents 鈥楾he Forgotten Genocide in Libya鈥
It may seem like we鈥檙e all well aware of the greatest atrocities of the past century, including the short list of genocides most of us can, sadly, recite without much deliberation. But one genocide from the not-so-distant past very nearly slipped through the cracks of history before 成人直播 scholar Ali Abdullatif Ahmida painstakingly rescued it from obscurity to tell its story: the genocide in Libya that took place between 1929 and 1934.
A lecture at the 成人直播 Center for Global Humanities will share the details of Ahmida鈥檚 ten years of fieldwork and research as he presents 鈥淭he Forgotten Genocide in Libya鈥 on Monday, Oct. 11 at 6 p.m. at Innovation Hall at 成人直播鈥檚 Portland Campus.
A professor of political science at 成人直播, Ahmida was born in Waddan, Libya and educated at Cairo University in Egypt and the University of Washington in Seattle. He is the author of numerous books such as :The Making of Modern Libya,鈥 鈥淔orgotten Voices: Power and Agency in Colonial and Postcolonial Libya,鈥 鈥淧ost-Orientalism: Critical Reviews of North African Social and Cultural History,鈥 and 鈥淭he Libya We Do Not Know.鈥 He also edited 鈥淏eyond Colonialism and Nationalism in the Maghrib鈥 and 鈥淏ridges Across the Sahara.鈥 His most recent book, the 2021 title 鈥淕enocide in Libya,鈥 forms the basis for this lecture.
In the lecture, Ahmida will explain how he used the oral testimonies of Libyan survivors who were brutalized by the fascist Italian regime as well as previously unexplored archival materials to reconstruct the story of how the Libyans were forcibly removed from their homes, marched across vast tracks of deserts and mountains, and confined behind barbed wire in 16 concentration camps. It is a story that Libyans have recorded in their oral histories and narratives that remained hidden from global view until now.
This second lecture of the Fall 2021 season for the Center for Global Humanities will be followed by three more between now and December. Lectures at the Center are always free, open to the public, and streamed live online. For more information and to watch the event, please visit: /events/2021/forgotten-genocide-libya
