谎颜书包网:少年利比亚，一名少年利比亚记者的故事

17岁少年新闻记者Atem是一个普通的利比亚人，如同她自己所说的，“一个平凡的利比亚姑娘” ，起义前刚刚高中毕业，平时喜欢上网，交朋友，看电影，听音乐，当然，通过这些活动她的英语水平也见长，呵呵，她经常遇到一些人一听说是利比亚就想到卡扎菲，就想到卡扎菲的帐篷，认为利比亚到处都是帐篷，Atem对此有些不快，都是卡扎菲闹的，他（卡）的策略就是模糊化普通利比亚的民众形象以他的形象来代表，他一直都是这么做的，做的还很成功。
利比亚民众起义后，Atem开始了她的记者生涯，起初她在一家报纸工作，不过她的锐气太胜，很快就受到了编辑的打压，"一些事情当我深入探究的时候，编辑们就会害怕，他们告诉我“别说这些或那些事情”我就想问他们，现在不说，等什么时候说？"
于是她和她的一些朋友决定自己办报纸说自己想说的话，他们搞了个周报，受到了当地发展银行的注意，现在这些年龄在17～25岁的小记者们有了赞助商。
Atem一直努力的工作，为了实现一个人们心中不用再害怕像卡扎菲这样的魔影的新利比亚。
 

Teenage Journalist Portrays 'Normal' Libya

 

Photo: VOA - E. Arrott

Journalist Atem, who wants to keep her identity obscure, writes of Libyan life without Moammar Gadhafi, Benghazi, April 13, 2011

 Atem is 17 years old.  Before the uprising began, she was finishing her last year in high school and acting very much her age.

Teen life

"I just like hanging with my friends. We all go out, like, every Thursday night, every weekend," Atem said. "I like movies.  I like music.  I'm addicted to Facebook. I love the Internet. It was normal."

Her English, learned in school and honed through those movies and music, helped her strike up Internet friendships around the world. And that's when she began to realize how far from normal the perception of her country was.

"When I talk to people, they all think we're just simple people - and they don't know it's normal here," Atem said. "They're like, you say "Libya."  "Oh, Gadhafi" and that's it. And he's like moving around with his tent everywhere and so they think there are tents everywhere here."

Perceived image

Atem, whose deep blue nail polish would seem out of place in a desert encampment, argues that projecting the image of a helpless people was part of leader Moammar Gadhafi's goal.

"He was trying to put that image because he didn't want people to see," Atem said. "He, like, blurred us out.  He's the only thing he wanted people to think of when you say Libya. And it actually worked."

That perceived arrogance drove her to help anyway she could when the rebellion broke out. She began writing for a start-up newspaper, but her youthful enthusiasm, as yet unburdened by repression and its consequences, soon led to frustration with her editors.

"When I got more into it, I found that they were so scared to go into certain issues, they were like "No, don't talk about this or that" so I was like "if we don't speak now, when are we going to speak?" Atem asked.

Weekly journal

So she and some friends decided to go it alone, producing a free-wheeling and outspoken weekly journal. They printed the first issue of the Berenice Post themselves. It caught the eye of a local development bank, and the budding journalists, ranging in age from 17 to 25, had a backer.

Atem, who wishes to keep her identity somewhat private, is the pen name she adopted for her work.

While she spends most of her days working for a Libya without the specter of Colonel Gadhafi, Atem doesn't let politics and journalism overwhelm her. She finds time for novels - she's a fan of Jane Austen - and movies - she loves the horror movie Saw. And her musical taste is, up to a point, quite broad.

"I like rap. But I also like jazz. I like classical music. I like everything, except for Country. I don't like Country [music]," Atem added, laughing.

She calls herself "your average Libyan girl."