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Brutally suppressed for over 40 years, Libya’s Amazigh are slowly resurrecting their culture, but can they win a stake in the new Libya?
Derna, which lost entire neighborhoods and thousands of residents in the deluge, has a history as a cultural and intellectual hub as well as a rebellious streak.
The National Federation of Libyan Workers, in cooperation with the Libyan Network for Supporting and Protecting Juvenile Offenders and the Libyan Network for Regulating Migrant Labor, organized this ...
Cultural treasure or painful reminder? Libya’s colonial architecture Residents of Tripoli and Benghazi are divided about what should be done with their Italian colonial heritage.
Hundreds of migrants moved from Crete to Greek mainland as island struggles with Libya arrivals - Greek authorities have ...
The Sadaawi family had gathered for a wedding in the coastal Libyan city of Soussa. Then the floods came.
Libyan authorities have clamped down on rap music for violating "moral rules." Artists fear a return to cultural repression as observers see a more general shift to a stricter Islamic way of life.
NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Libyan writer Khaled Mattawa. He translated a poem by Mustafa al-Trabelsi, who wrote about the flood risks in Libya before he died in them.
Archaeologists excavating the ancient city of Ptolemais on Libya's Mediterranean coast recently explored a Roman-era villa that likely dates back to the late 2nd century C.E. A lavish residence ...
Mr Abdel Basset Buganda, undersecretary of the Libyan culture ministry, told AFP that Libya’s theatre has gained lasting momentum.
IN the days after much of the coastal city of Derna, Libya, was washed away by devastating floods, Mahbuba Khalifa wrote a poem to honour her hometown, known by Libyans as the “City of Poets”.