The Internet Archive has captured an important part of the Libyan digital newspapers which are currently no longer available on the live web.

1. Internet Archive Capturing Snapshots
of Gaddafi’s Digital Newspapers
Mohamed Aturban
Old Dominion University
Fall 2016

2. Gaddafi’s regime
September
1969 42 years
August
2011
The Arab Spring
(Tripoli’s fall)
Military coup

3. Libyan national newspapers
• 71 newspapers and magazines
• ALL monitored and published by the Libyan General
Press Corporation (LGPC)
• The Jamahiriya News Agency (JANA) was the main source
of domestic news
• No real political function other than to polish the
regime’s image
• Publish information provided by the regime

4. The Libyan most well-known
newspapers
The General Press
Corporation
Al
Jamahiriya
El shams
El Zahf Al
Akhdar
El Fajr El
Jadid
alshames.comwww.aljamahiria.com www.azzahfalakhder.com www.alfajraljadeed.com

5. Libyan newspapers’ websites
after the revolution
alshames.com
www.aljamahiria.com
www.azzahfalakhder.com
www.alfajraljadeed.com
• All websites of the Libyan main digital newspapers became controlled
by foreign institutions
Became an Egyptian newspaper
Became an Egyptian newspaper
(redirected to www.news.kifaharabi.com/ )
Became a German sport blog
Became an Egyptian newspaper

6. Did we lose our digital history?
• Fortunately, the Internet Archive captured
thousands of snapshots of Libyan’s digital
newspapers
• This includes capturing the General Press
Corporation (LGPC) website.

7. www.aljamahiria.com

8. alshames.com

9. www.azzahfalakhder.com

10. www.alfajraljadeed.com

11. What is already archived?
• A lot of domestic news and the regime’s interpretation of
international news
• The regime’s activities during the “2011” revolution
• Economic, social, sport, and cultural articles
• The long process taken by the Libyan authorities in order
to establish the African Union
• Gaddafi and Pan Am Flight 103
• Most of Gaddafi’s speeches
• …

12. Praise for Qaddafi no longer
on the live web
https://web.archive.org/web/2011051410304
9/http://www.alfajraljadeed.com//full.pdf
There is no
future for
Libya without
the leader
Muammar
Gaddafi (the
icon of
national
unity)
Not Found
http://www.alfajraljadeed.com/full.pdf

13. People around the world
praising Gadhafi!
https://web.archive.org/web/2004101815170
6/http://aljamahiria.com/Main/Mail.html
The leader’s
email box
Not Found
http://www.news.aljamahiria.com/Main/Mail.html
Don Sander from USA
Eric Michalek from Slovakia
Mongi Abubkr from
Republic of Uganda