The remarkable inside account of a BBC journalist who reported while in hiding in the final months of Gadaffi's Libya. This book includes the famous blogs which were posted by the BBC, and supplements the material with a series of essays on life in Libya under Gaddafi.

Social policy in the Middle East and North African (MENA) has evolved significantly over the last decade. Focusing on three key dimensions - allocation, membership, and entitlement - and the way these play out in social programmes led by governments, UN agencies and NGOs, this book presents a wide breadth of case studies across this complex and diverse region. It questions whether recent social policy initiatives signal a move towards universal social policy convergence or, instead, represent a continuation of previous policy trends, perpetuating poverty and inequality. Leading scholars...