Lindsey Hilsum

Lindsey Hilsum is International Editor for the UK's <a href="/www.channel4.com/news">Channel 4 News</a>. Her latest book is <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sandstorm-Lindsey-Hilsum/dp/0571288030/

Desolation and despair in Libya: the murder of Salwa Bugaighis

Looking back, it feels as if Salwa Bugaighis embodied not the hopes and aspirations of the majority of her country's people but a dream of revolution, shared by a minority of educated Libyans and nurtured by western journalists and democracy activists, says Lindsey Hilsum

By Lindsey Hilsum

/ 3 Jul 2014

Is that what we fought for? Gaddafi's legacy for Libyan women

Women played a largely unreported role in last year’s revolution in Libya. Now they have to fight both Islamist and secular men if they’re to have any influence in the new Libya, says Lindsey Hilsum.

By Lindsey Hilsum

/ 3 Jul 2014