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Lamma aims to provide a forum for critically understanding the complex ideas, values, social configurations, histories, and material realities in Libya. We give attention to a wide a range of disciplines, sources, and approaches, foregrounding especially those which have previously received less scholarly attention: anthropology, art, gender, history, linguistics, literature, music, performance studies, politics, religion, and urban studies, in addition to their intersections, their subfields, the places in between, and critical, theoretical, and postcolonial approaches thereto. Lamma is a space where these fields can interact and draw from one another, and where scholars and students from inside and outside of Libya gather to redefine and reshape “Libyan Studies.” We believe that access to research is not the privilege of a few but the right of all and that knowledge production should be inclusive. For these reasons the journal takes its name from the Arabic word lamma, “a gathering.”