Libyan girls walk past a recently opened Amazigh culture center in Jadu, eastern Libya. The script on the wall is Tifinagh, the Berber alphabet.

Libya has been engulfed in a civil war since a 2011 popular uprising ended Muammar Gaddafi’s 42-year rule. Rival governments, including the UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA), have ...

Derna, a once-lush seaside town on Libya’s northeastern coast, was built on the ruins of an ancient Greek colony in the late 15th century by Muslims fleeing the Spanish Inquisition.

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Benghazi, Libya – It happened in ... many Libyans identified with as part of Libyan identity. Libyans accepted an orientalist architectural injection in Libyan culture,” he says.

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”.

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 ...

The country's National Theatre Festival resumed after a hiatus of 15 years, following years of chaos. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Libyan girls walk past a recently opened Amazigh culture center in Jadu, eastern Libya. The script on the wall is Tifinagh, the Berber alphabet.