Ali Ahmida interviewed by Jamaican and Brazilian media

Ali Abdullatif Ahmida, Ph.D.,   professor and chair of the Â鶹´«Ã½'s Politcal Science Department, was interviewed on The Evening Edition, a radio discussion programme in Kingston, Jamaica, Sept 2, 2009, and by the Brazilian newspaper Folha de S.Paulo that same week about the significance of the 40th anniversary of Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi's rise to power. Ahmida's latest books are Post-Orientalism: Critical Reviews in North African Social and Cultural History and Bridges Across the Sahara: Social Economic and Cultural Impact of the Trans-Sahara Trade during the 19th and 20 Centuries.

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