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How video games are helping integrate Libyans back into the international community Last October, as Libya’s congress was throwing out the then-prime minister-elect and the hunt continued for the killers of the American ambassador, around five dozen young men filed into a Tripoli theater for the country’s first-ever open national [...]

By Rana Jawad For decades, Libya appeared to be starved of talent. The entertainment industry is still virtually non-existent. But since the uprising that toppled the only man allowed to be famous in the country – Col Muammar Gaddafi – Libyans are leaving nothing to chance. In a small music [...]

(Reuters) – Libya have entered two teams in next year’s African club competitions despite not having a functioning domestic league in the country for almost two years. The Libya Football Federation have entered Al Ittihad from Tripoli into the African Champions League and Al Nasr of Benghazi in the African [...]

After decades of restrictions, Libyans can now recognise and celebrate their diversity. By Essam Mohamed The Libyan Amazigh stronghold of Jadu held a cultural festival in November to celebrate the richness and beauty of its culture, as well as the country’s diversity. The event, which ran November 7th through November [...]

By Mohammed Elsharif, Libya Herald. The near-decade long conflict between Niger and Chad, which ran from 1978-1987, is one of the darker clouds over Libyan history. Horror stories abound from both sides, with many truths about that war still hidden from the public. In 1978, Qaddafi launched an invasion into [...]

The Libyan highlights the work of eight contemporary Libyan artists aged 24 – 67 until 30 November. Curated by Noon Art and supported by the British Council, the exhibition consists of sculptures, painings, photography, installations and short film screenings, inviting the viewer to explore the artistic trends in Libya and [...]

By Chris Leadbeater Tripoli – The violence that has engulfed the country in the last two years means that, at the time of writing, Libya is unlikely to feature on many people’s travel wish-lists. But the troubled North African country has enormous potential as a tourist destination and is likely [...]

Libyans discover video art after four-decades of cultural vacuum under regime of slain dictator Gathafi. By Youssef Ba Libya’s first video art exhibit proved a hit in Tripoli, drawing scores of spectators in a country emerging from 42 culturally barren years under the regime of slain dictator Moamer Gathafi. People [...]

By IWPR Libya One of the IWPR team’s key strategies since starting work in Libya earlier in 2012 has been to provide practical support where it is most useful – in working newsrooms. We work directly with reporters and editors as they commission and produce stories for broadcast or publication. [...]

Experience is one of the most vital qualities in any team and, when the pressure is on, coaches will always turn to their veteran players to see them through. This is the situation Libya’s coach Pablo Prieto finds himself in as he prepares to lead his charges into the FIFA [...]

It was 5 years since the last participation of Libya in ESWC. After the country dark hours, its community comes back more motivated than ever. Two weeks ago another qualifier finished and four new players earned a spot at the Grand Final of the ESWC. We are always proud to [...]

By Joslyn Massad, Dominique Soguel TRIPOL: Portraits of toppled Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi may no longer adorn the walls of Tripoli University, but it is likely to be a long time before new values and higher standards become entrenched there. The signature red, black and green of the 2011 revolt [...]

Libya had no film-making culture under Gaddafi: just a handful of cinemas and a propaganda machine. Days after a film sparked violence there, Steve Rose meets the new wave By Steve Rose While the people of Benghazi were ejecting the Islamist militias from their city last Saturday, another smaller but [...]

The message is we’ve made life out of destruction, A symphony of colors plays on the burnt-out walls of an improvised gallery in the eastern city of Benghazi, where Libyan artists display an abstract mood in the wake of revolution and war. Sculptures forged out of bullet casings and metal [...]