About “Libya”

Philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy speaks of his role in France’s push against Kadafi

Bernard-Henri Lévy (interview), The Los Angeles Times, April 17, 2011

Levy is famous for his activism. The astonishing story of him marching across bombed Libyan cities has many especially fascinated and infuriated.

A Road Under Fire

Bernard-Henri Lévy, Tablet, August 06, 2020

We have entered a world in which a thinker who is not beholden to a party, a community, or an authority other than his own has become an alien concept.

A Polarizing French Philosopher Chooses War Zones Over Salons

Dan Bilefsky, The New York Times, February 28, 2023

In a new film, “Slava Ukraini,” the writer and filmmaker Bernard Henri-Lévy warns of a heavy price if the West fails to defeat Putin in Ukraine.

Epiphanies from Bernard-Henri Lévy

Bernard-Henri Lévy (interview), Foreign Policy, January 02, 2013

"Arab Winter" is a stupid slogan and the West needs to get over its China fixation, says France's most prominent intellectual.

Libyan intervention: Brought to you by Bernard-Henri Levy?

Joshua Keating, Foreign Policy, March 28, 2011

Lévy took up the Libyan cause in earnest after meeting Mustafa Abdul Jalil, former Libyan justice minister and leader of the opposition’s National Transition Council (NTC).

It’s Time to Take Bernard-Henri Lévy Seriously

Blake Smith, Foreign Policy, April 09, 2021

A close reading of the philosophical career, and influence, of France’s most ridiculed public intellectual.

“The Oath of Tobruk” tracks six months of behind-the-scenes work in war-torn Libya, as Lévy bargains with the emergent National Transitional Council. Lévy’s courageous hands-on intervention helps build the international consensus for UN military action.

The Will to See

Published in October 2021

Over the past fifty years, renowned intellectual BHL has reported extensively on human rights abuses around the world. This book follows the Lévy into eight international hotspots—in Nigeria; Syrian and Iraqi Kurdistan; Ukraine; Somalia; Bangladesh; Lesbos; Libya; and Afghanistan—that have escaped global attention or active response.

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