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| Libyan Customs During Ramadan |
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After breaking your fast by eating three dates, which is followed by the Maghreb (sunset) prayer it is advised that you drink water and have soup to rehydrate your body after the thirst of a whole day without drinking and eating.
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| First Ramadan As A Free Libya |
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Fasting in Islam is the abstinence from food, drink, intimacy or smoking, from sunrise to sunset. Although Muslims can fast any time of the year , every able Muslim is required to fast one month of the yea in particular. This is the month of Ramadan.
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| Shock Omission of Mohamed Khawaja from Libya's Squad for London 2012 |
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If ever Libya entertained any hope of winning its first medal in an Olympic Gmes, then London 2012 was it. This could have been achieved through 24-year-old 400 metres runner Mohamed Ashour Khawaja, winner of gold medals in the 2009 Mediterranean Games in Pescara, Italy, and the African Athletic Championships in Nairobi, Kenya in 2010. But our hopes have been dashed as Khawaja is not even in the Libyan team to go to the Olympic Games that start on July 27.
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| Almost Dawn in Libya: Exclusive Interactive Panorama |
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Almost Dawn in Libya, a collaborative project for which eight photographers raised money for four simultaneous Libyan exhibitions of photographs from the country’s conflict reached its fundraising goal of $40,000 and will be completed in the next few weeks. The exhibition will be showing in four Libyan cities starting July 1.
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| “Gaddafi’s Newsgirl” Launches Three Books |
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Karen Dabrowska, who worked in JANA, the news agency of the former Libyan government for 20 years has just launched three books in London, namely: The Libyan Revolution: diary of Gaddafi’s newsgirl in London, Into the Abyss: Human Rights Violations in Bahrain and Suppression of the Popular Movement for Change, and Melancholy Memories, Foreign Dream.
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| Opinion: Rio+20: Vengeance Too Long Delayed - by Gwynne Dyer |
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There was no law against genocide in the early 1940s; it only became an internationally recognised crime after the worst genocide of modern history had actually happened. Similarly, there is no law against “ecocide” now. That will only come to pass when the damage to the environment has become so extreme that large numbers of people are dying from it even in rich and powerful countries.
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| The Gaddafi Archives: Libya before the Arab Spring London 2012 |
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The Gaddafi Archives: Libya Before the Arab Spring is part of the London Festival of Photography. Many of the pictures and documents are exhibits that have never been seen before. They were found in Libyan state intelligence buildings and destroyed Gaddafi family residences by Human Rights Watch's Emergencies Director Peter Bouckaert who photographed and documented them on site.
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| Marriage: Liability or Blessing - by Maryam Hedayat |
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Marriage is an institution that helps establish the generation. Islam considers marriage as a solemn family relationship between a man and a woman.
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| Beauty and Elegance from Days Gone By |
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If you think of antiques as worn out, objects that have reached their sell by date and belong in Charles Dickens’ Old Curiosity shop think again.
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| The Real Story of the Iraq War: Horrific Images from Iraqi and British Artists |
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America’s military intervention in Iraq resulted in destruction, bloodshed, suffering and misery. That is the unequivocal message from a powerful exhibition Iraq: How, Where for Whom? Hanaa’ Malallah, Peter Kennard and Cat Phillipps portray the war as a lust for oil and dollars which has brought nothing but suffering and destruction to the people of Iraq.
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| Informative Analysis of Unfinished Revolutions |
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Deeply informed by inside access to the Obama administration’s decision-making process and first-hand interviews with protestors, politicians, diplomatic and journalists, Marc Lynch’s The Arab Uprisings: The Unfinished revolutions of the New Middle East is an unprecedented and indispensable guide to the changing lay of the land in the Middle East and North Africa.
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| UNESCO Concerned About Attacks on Ghadamès World Heritage Site |
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The Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, today called for the protection of Libya’s Old City of Ghadamès inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List in 1986.
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| Fairytale Cape from Madagascar’s Golden Orb Spider |
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Elegance has an address: Gallery 17 in London’s Victoria & Albert Museum. On display in this small gallery is a unique garment: a golden cape made from silk extracted from more than a million female golden orb spiders abundant throughout Madagascar.
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| Cannes 2012: Weinstein Co. Buys Libyan Revolution Documentary |
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For the second time in as many days at the Cannes Film Festival in France, Harvey Weinstein has gotten political, by buying “The Oath of Tobruk,” a documentary about the 2011 Libyan revolution.
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| Promoting Moroccan Art Online and Through Exhibitions |
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A home without art is a home without a soul. This simple but profound statement from her grandfather inspired Nadia Echiguer (27) who holds a Masters Degree in marketing, to promote Moroccan art internationally. In April this year she set up an 'online gallery dedicated to Moroccan fine art, specialising in emerging artists from Morocco'.
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