Ali Abdullatif Ahmida, Ph.D., professor and chair of the Department of Political Science, gave a lecture at the Center for Near Eastern Studies at University of California Los Angeles on March 2, 2010 titled "Before the Holocaust: Italian Fascist Concentration Camps in Colonial Libya, 1929-1933." Ahmida is author of several books, including Post-Orientalism: Critical Reviews of North African Social and Cultural History (2009).