Ali Abdullatif Ahmida

Ali Abdullatif Ahmida is a Libyan-American professor of political science at the University of New England, where he served as founding chair of the department from 2000 to 2014. Born in Waddan, Libya, he was educated at Cairo University in Egypt and the University of Washington, Seattle, and his scholarship focuses on political theory, comparative politics, historical sociology, power, agency, genocide, and anti-colonial resistance in North Africa, particularly modern Libya. He has authored key books including The Making of Modern Libya (SUNY Press, 1994, 2009), Forgotten Voices (Routledge, 2005), and Genocide in Libya (Routledge, 2021), which won the 2022 L. Carl Brown Book Prize.[1][2][4][7]