Contributions on Libya and Egypt:



Libération
A few quotes from an interview on military developments around the city of Sirt, stronghold of the Islamic State in Libya, Libération (5 May 2016):
http://www.liberation.fr/planete/2016/05/05/libye-la-bataille-de-syrte_1450757


Le Monde
Interview on the political process, the role of tribes and the importance of reconciliation in Libya, Le Monde (20 February 2016):
http://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2016/02/20/dans-l-euphorie-de-la-revolution-les-blessures-libyennes-ont-ete-sous-estimees_4868935_3210.html



La Croix
Interview on the expansion of Daesh in Libya and the possible means to counter it, La Croix (6 January 2016):
http://www.la-croix.com/Actualite/Monde/Que-peut-on-faire-contre-l-avancee-de-Daech-en-Libye-2016-01-06-1400766





GEOPOLITIQUE - LE DEBAT: "Libye: une nouvelle intervention militaire est-elle possible?"
Debate on the situation in Libya after the signature of the UN-sponsored political accord and on the possibility of strikes against IS (2 January 2016):
http://www.rfi.fr/emission/20160102-libye-accord-maroc-intervention-inevitable





Interview on the situation in Libya and the possibility of foreign strikes against IS, RTL (8 December 2015):
http://www.rtl.fr/actu/societe-faits-divers/etat-islamique-faut-il-prevoir-des-frappes-en-libye-7780778179



A few comments on the situation of pro-Qadhafi constituencies in the new political context, Libération (21 August 2015):
http://www.liberation.fr/monde/2015/08/21/libye-les-pro-kadhafi-redonnent-de-la-voix_1367116





GEOPOLITIQUE - LE DEBAT: "Libye: course contre la montre dans l'espoir d'un accord"
Debate on the situation in Libya, with Patrick Haimzadeh and Emmanuel Rimbert (13 June 2015):
http://www.rfi.fr/emission/20150613-libye-espoir-accord-nations-unies-organisation-etat-islamique/

GEOPOLITIQUE - LE DEBAT: "Libye, de la révolution au chaos"
Debate on the situation in Libya, with Ali Bensaad and Pierre Vermeren (14 February 2015):
http://www.rfi.fr/emission/20150214-libye-revolution-chaos/



Mediapart

A short commentary on the situation in Libya and the issue of national dialogue published in Mediapart (25 November 2014):
http://blogs.mediapart.fr/edition/les-invites-de-mediapart/article/241114/en-libye-seul-un-consensus-entre-communautes-peut-eviter-le-chaos



Home

"Compromise in Libya, a fraught task but not an impossible one". Commentary published by Middle East Eye (18 November 2014):
http://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/libya-pushing-more-consensus-less-competition-1006105611



A short comment to Mathieu Galtier, for French daily Libération (2 September 2014), about what was (partly) at stake behind "Operation Dignity" in Libya.
The quotation is from a much longer phone interview conducted early July:
http://www.liberation.fr/monde/2014/09/02/la-libye-dechiree-par-un-conflit-a-fragmentation_1092330


Based on the same interview, another quotation by Mathieu Galtier, in "Le Magazine de l'Afrique" (August/September 2014, n°139). On the involvement of important Eastern tribes in "Operation Dignity" and the relationship between Libyan tribes and islamist groups:
http://issuu.com/icpubs/docs/naf39_relay?e=6326645/8856187



"Les diplomaties occidentales et la tentation du familier", 22 August 2013
http://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2013/08/22/les-diplomaties-occidentales-et-la-tentation-du-familier_3465021_3232.html