DESCRIPTION:
My name is Nafisa Elsed (Pen name: Nafissa Assed ( نفيسة عبد السلام محمد عثمان الصيد). I am a former Libyan exile; I was born and grew up in Morocco with my family. I was seven when my father was brutally murdered in 1990 by Qaddafi’s regime in Tripoli, Libya.
Growing up, speaking English with my siblings, Moroccan Arabic and French with my friends, and Libyan Arabic with my grandfather (a former Libyan prime minister: Mohammed Othman Assed- محمد عثمان الصيد), I never knew how different I was from the other little boys and girls. I assumed that all my friends were like me and had multiple linguistic and national identities, without really understanding the phenomena myself. When I recall my experiences as a child and teenager, I am fond of referring to them as “globalization in isolation.” After the death of my father, I lived with and was raised by my grandfather until he passed away in 2007. In 2010 I decided to move to Libya full-time, to apply my analytical and media research skills towards the cultural healing and rebuilding of my society.
As the Libyan Uprising started, I was helping as a correspondent in Tripoli by writing and sending stirring and terrifying reports about what was going on inside Libya; contacted Media ( CNN: AC360 with Anderson Cooper), describing the critical situation in Libya. I left Libya by the end of March, but my heart and my mind stayed there, in LIBYA, and i am still writing and reporting until today, until i see A FREE LIBYA.
As the Libyan Uprising started, I was helping as a correspondent in Tripoli by writing and sending stirring and terrifying reports about what was going on inside Libya; contacted Media ( CNN: AC360 with Anderson Cooper), describing the critical situation in Libya. I left Libya by the end of March, but my heart and my mind stayed there, in LIBYA, and i am still writing and reporting until today, until i see A FREE LIBYA.
AWARDS:
Nominated & granted a prestigious Fulbright Scholarship sponsored by the US Department of State to study masters in Integrated Marketing Communications in 2012/2013.
WEBSITES:
My writings were published on Pulse, Qunfuz, Guernica online magazine during the Libyan uprising. Today, I have my own blog, the Libyan blogger.
My writings were published on Pulse, Qunfuz, Guernica online magazine during the Libyan uprising. Today, I have my own blog, the Libyan blogger.
Personal blog:
http://www.blogger.com/profile/147545601...
Freelance writer/reporter for Libya Herald (pen name: Nafissa Assed)
www.libyaherald.com
Guernica Magazine:
http://www.guernicamag.com/blog/2504/ano...
PULSE MEDIA:
http://pulsemedia.org/2011/03/20/introdu...
Qufuz:
http://qunfuz.com/2011/03/20/introducing...
http://www.blogger.com/profile/147545601...
Freelance writer/reporter for Libya Herald (pen name: Nafissa Assed)
www.libyaherald.com
Guernica Magazine:
http://www.guernicamag.com/blog/2504/ano...
PULSE MEDIA:
http://pulsemedia.org/2011/03/20/introdu...
Qufuz:
http://qunfuz.com/2011/03/20/introducing...
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إذا كان الإنسان والزمان ضدي فأنا ليــبــية أهوي التحدي ولو دق الموت بابي وشاء ربي أن يطوي شـــبابى سأموت وتحي بـــــــلادي
البنت الليبية :بنت ناس .. و أغلى من الماس .. عشرتها ترفع الراس .. اللي يرسمها فنان .. واللي يكرهها خسران .. واللي يحسدها غيران .. واللي يشوفها و ما يحبها يبقى أكبر غلطان. قالولهــا ليــــــش عيونــك كحلية و رموشــك سحريـــة و جلستـــك رومانسيـــة و طلتـــك غير منسيــة و دايماً ...رافـــعة راســك و قويــة ؟ قالت لهـــم عفــواً كلنــا بشــر ولكن أنــا ليــــــــــــــبية..
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