Articles tagged with: tribe
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Monday, 30 Apr, 2012
Like other countries in the region, Libya has embarked on the long process of rebirth, and, as rocky as it is, defining its national identity is of utmost importance.
The National Transitional Council’s (NTC) recent decision to ban religious, sectarian and tribe-based political parties in Libya raises the age-old issues of separation between religion and state, and the role of sect and tribe in political mobilization.
The fact that the legislation also included the outlawing of fore...
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One of the Arab world’s premier poets is currently being celebrated at the Mosaic Rooms in London. The exhibit, which opened February 3, is entitled A Tribute to Adonis and includes selections of the poet’s latest artwork, incorporating calligraphy, collage, and poem fragments.
Born January 1930 in Quassadin, Syria, Adonis (Ali Ahmad Said Asbar) currently lives in France and Lebanon. He is an iconoclast, vigorously committed to challenging social and religious orthodoxies and conventions,...
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Wednesday, 24 Aug, 2011
It is a typically hot July afternoon in Benghazi. A man is squinting at pictures on a wall, trying to make out the name of someone he might know, a man who comes from his town....
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Thursday, 7 Jul, 2011
The Origins of Political Order: From Pre-Human Times to the French Revolution
Francis Fukuyama
Profile Books Ltd
£12.43
Francis Fukuyama famously marked in 1992 a ...
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