Libya between History and Revolution

Anna Maria Di Tolla; Valentina Schiattarella

Libya between History and Revolution: Resilience, New Opportunities and Challenges for the Berbers

Authors

Anna Maria Di Tolla

University of Naples "L'Orientale"

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7273-0286

Valentina Schiattarella

University of Naples "L'Orientale"

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0500-7231

Keywords:

Berber, Amazigh, Libya, Italian colonization, independence, identity, mobilization, linguistic diversity, revolution

Synopsis

Publisher: UniorPress

Series: Studi Africanistici

Pages: 297

Language: Inglese

NBN: http://nbn.depositolegale.it/resolver.pl?nbn=urn:nbn:it:unina-27408

Abstract: The International Conference Libya between History and Revolution: Resilience and New Narrations of Berber Identity convened at the University of Naples “L’Orientale” from the 15th to the 17th January 2018, was dedicated to the contemporary history of Libya. Its purpose was to understand a reality that is for the most part little known to the vast majority of the Italian public, and this despite colonization, its consequences, and the relations that have always existed between the two countries. Conversely, first the promotion of the colonizers’ rationale, then the rhetoric of Qadhafi’s regime, and finally the current representations closely related to terrorist emergencies, immigration, and war within and outside the Islamic world, are all well-known and documented. This volume Libya between History and Revolution: Resilience, New Opportunities and Challenges for the Berbers brings together papers by the scholars (from both Italy and abroad) who took part in the conference. The aim of this collection is to provide insights into a range of crucial issues that affected the country as a consequence of its colonial history and informed the uprisings of 2011; the volume looks in particular at the role of the Berbers in Libya through the prism of the new opportunities and challenges that face them today and which were discussed during the three-day international conference.

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Author Biographies

Anna Maria Di Tolla, University of Naples "L'Orientale"

Anna Maria Di Tolla is Associate Professor at the University of Naples “L’Orientale”. She teaches Berber Language and Literature and Contemporary History of Berbers in North Africa. Since she got her PhD in African Studies, AMD has studied the issue of minorities and identity claims in North Africa, with special reference to the Berber Identity Movement. She is the author of several books and essays. Among her most recent publications is the edited volume Percorsi di transizione democratica e politiche di riconciliazione in Nord Africa, Editoriale Scientifica, Napoli, 2017. AMD is co-editor of the volume Emerging Actors In Post Revolutionary North Africa. Berber Movements: Identity, New Issues and New Challenges, Studi Maġrebini, XV, Napoli, 2016-2017.

Valentina Schiattarella, University of Naples "L'Orientale"

Valentina Schiattarella is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Naples, “L’Orientale” and a Fulbright visiting scholar at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She earned her PhD at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris in 2015, with a dissertation on Siwi Berber. She has conducted fieldwork in Siwa (Egypt), where she has collected a large corpus of texts, which are contributing to the documentation of the Siwi language. Some folktales and narrations were published in her book Berber Texts from Siwa. Including a Grammatical sketch, Köppe, Köln, 2017.