Destinations

Have You Met the Colonel? | Barnaby Rogerson | Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Tripoli, Tripoli

Libya creates a knee jerk response in conversation. "Have you met Colonel Qaddafi?" is followed by "is it safe?" After six years taking lecture tours round its unforgettable classical ruins, all I can say is

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Libya Sur Commande | Barnaby Rogerson | Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Tripoli, Tripoli

I have plotted, schemed and tried to charm my way onto various expeditions into Libya and its Sahara over the last twelve years but this was my first command

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A Tripolitanian Shopping Basket | Fiona Dunlop | Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Tripoli, Tripoli

While you are unlikely to find a Libyan restaurant beyond their borders, Libyan food is far more than just ‘tent cookery’, as a string of foreign invaders has made for a gastro-eclectically cuisine

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