on Facebook and Twitter under an alias. But he quickly decided to reveal his identity. "I said, the hell with it! The time has come. The people have gone through the ultimate dismissal of fear by offering their lives . . . I really had no business being cautious." Mattawa recently took his activism a step further when he slammed the Qaddafi regime in an interview on Democracy Now.
While Libya's telephone lines are becoming increasingly unreliable, Mattawa is still speaking daily to his relatives. One of his nephews was shot in the leg, yet continues to demonstrate in Benghazi.
from Mother Jones: Expat Libyan Poet: "The People Have Gone Through the Ultimate Dismissal of Fear by Offering Their Lives"
then Democracy Now: "Libya is Forever Changed by These Events": Libyan Poet and Scholar Khaled Mattawa on the Pro-Democracy Movement Amid Government Violence
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