Opinion: Women’s role in the Libyan uprising | Libya Herald

Nafissa Assed

Nafissa Assed has written for numerous blogs and on-line publications. She is a former Libyan exile who was born and brought up in Morocco. Her father returned in 1990 but was murdered by the Qaddafi regime in Libya. After his death she lived with her grandfather, Mohamed Othman Assed, who was prime minister of Libya from 17 October 1960 to 19 March 1963. In 2010, she moved to Libya full-time, hoping to use her media skills for the cultural healing and rebuilding of my society.

After the Libyan revolution started, she wrote anonymously from Tripoli on what was going on inside the country.

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Women’s role in the Libyan uprising 

 By Nafissa Assed

 

     The world was plainly stunned by Libya’s uprising he-roes. But it high time we fêted Libya’s uprising she-roes!

The success of the Libyan Revolution has been usually portrayed by images and videos of Libyan men, typically revolutionaries firing their Kalashnikovs on different frontlines. But one group has been lost in the reshuffling: women.

We should not forget the central role women played in the Libyan uprising and their vital contribution for its success. Although, women could not be warriors in the struggle to overthrow Gaddafi and finish his regime, the fight to oust him was made mutually by men and women but in different ways.

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