GENOCIDE IN LIBYA SHAR A HIDDEN COLONIAL HISTORY – ALI ABDULLATIF AHMIDA

Winner of the L. Carl Brown AIMS Book Prize in North African Studies 2022. This original research on the forgotten Libyan genocide specifically recovers the hidden history of the fascist Italian concentration camps (1929–1934) through the oral testimonies of Libyan survivors. The book links the Libyan genocide, through cross‑cultural and comparative readings, to the colonial roots of the Holocaust and genocide studies.

Between 1929 and 1934, thousands of Libyans lost their lives, directly murdered and victims of Italian deportations and internments. They were forcibly removed from their homes, marched across vast deserts and mountains, and confined behind barbed wire in sixteen concentration camps. This story, recorded in Arabic oral history, has remained hidden and unexplored in a systematic fashion, preventing a full understanding of its magnitude. Based on survivors’ testimonies gathered over more than ten years of fieldwork, this new history is a key resource for readers interested in genocide and Holocaust studies, colonial and postcolonial studies, and African and Middle Eastern studies.

**Awards**

– L. Carl Brown AIMS Book Prize in North African Studies, 2022

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