InternetArchiveCapturingSnapshotsofGaddafi’sDigitalNewspapers

MohamedAturbanOldDominionUniversity

Fall2016

Gaddafi’sregime

September

1969 42years

August

2011TheArabSpring(Tripoli’sfall)

Militarycoup

Libyannationalnewspapers

• 71newspapersandmagazines• ALLmonitoredandpublishedbytheLibyanGeneralPressCorporation(LGPC)• TheJamahiriyaNewsAgency(JANA)wasthemainsourceofdomesticnews• Norealpoliticalfunctionotherthantopolishtheregime’simage• Publishinformationprovidedbytheregime

TheLibyanmostwell-knownnewspapers

TheGeneralPressCorporation

AlJamahiriya Elshams ElZahfAl

AkhdarElFajrElJadid

alshames.comwww.aljamahiria.com www.azzahfalakhder.com www.alfajraljadeed.com

Libyannewspapers’websitesaftertherevolution

alshames.com

www.aljamahiria.com

www.azzahfalakhder.com

www.alfajraljadeed.com

• AllwebsitesoftheLibyanmaindigitalnewspapersbecamecontrolledbyforeigninstitutions

BecameanEgyptiannewspaper

BecameanEgyptiannewspaper(redirectedtowww.news.kifaharabi.com/ )

BecameaGermansportblog

BecameanEgyptiannewspaper

Didweloseourdigitalhistory?

• Fortunately,theInternetArchivecapturedthousandsofsnapshotsofLibyan’sdigitalnewspapers• ThisincludescapturingtheGeneralPressCorporation(LGPC)website.

www.aljamahiria.com

alshames.com

www.azzahfalakhder.com

www.alfajraljadeed.com

Whatisalreadyarchived?• Alotofdomesticnewsandtheregime’sinterpretationofinternationalnews• Theregime’sactivitiesduringthe“2011”revolution• Economic,social,sport,andculturalarticles• ThelongprocesstakenbytheLibyanauthoritiesinordertoestablishtheAfricanUnion• GaddafiandPanAmFlight103• MostofGaddafi’sspeeches• …

PraiseforQaddafinolongerontheliveweb

https://web.archive.org/web/20110514103049/http://www.alfajraljadeed.com//full.pdf

Thereisnofuturefor

LibyawithouttheleaderMuammarGaddafi(the

iconofnationalunity)

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http://www.alfajraljadeed.com/full.pdf

PeoplearoundtheworldpraisingGadhafi!

https://web.archive.org/web/20041018151706/http://aljamahiria.com/Main/Mail.html

Theleader’semailbox

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http://www.news.aljamahiria.com/Main/Mail.html

DonSanderfromUSA

EricMichalekfromSlovakia

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