Surviving the Ides of March

More good news than normal has come out of Libya these past two weeks. On April 10, the General National Congress (GNC) agreed to amend the constitutional declaration to elect a sixty-member constituent assembly that would draft a constitution in the allocated time. A few days ago, Law 30 of 2013 made GNC member Suleiman Aud Zubi the president of the committee that would oversee the law regulating that election of the committee. And on April 4, an errant militia gave the prime minister back his...

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The Hallmark of Democracy

Last February, Libya’s defense ministry detained four Christians—an American, an Egyptian, a South Korean and a South African—for allegedly distributing Christian materials and literature in the eastern city of Benghazi. Later that same month, the Office of Preventative Security, a division of the defense ministry, detained forty-eight Egyptian Coptic Christians for carrying religious paraphernalia and proselytizing, outraging Copts in the neighboring country. When questioned about the...

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