Youssef M. Sawani is Professor of Politics and International Relations, University of Tripoli, Libya. Hi latest publications include: The February 17 Intifada in Libya: disposing of the regime and the issues of state-building’’, in, Ricardo Laremont(ed) Revolution, Revolt and Reform in North Africa: The Arab Spring and Beyond, Routledge, London and New York, 2013; “Dynamics of Continuity and Change’’ in, Jason Pack(ed.) The 2011 Libyan Uprisings and the Struggle for the Post-Qadhafi Future, London; Palgrave Macmillan, 2013; “Libyan constitutionality and sovereignty post-Qadhafi: the Islamist, regionalist, and Amazigh challenges’’, with Jason Pack, The Journal of North African Studies, Vol.18, Issue 4, 2013. You can follow him on Twitter at @youssefsawani.