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Egyptian Prime Minister Calls for End to Israeli 'Aggression' |
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Speaking in Gaza Friday after a brief cease-fire that Israel put in place during his visit to the area collapsed, Egypt's prime minister Hesham Kandil has vowed to intensify his country's efforts to stop what he called Israeli "aggression" in Gaza and achieve a truce between Israelis and Palestinians.
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Libya's Afriqiyah Airways Orders Four More Airbus A350s |
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Libyan carrier Afriqiyah Airways has ordered another four of Airbus' A350 widebody jets, bringing its total order to 10.
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Libya: Tripoli Film Festival: Connecting Libyans with Human Rights Issues, Culture |
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The Tripoli Human Rights Film Festival, the first of its kind in post-Gaddafi Libya, brought movies and documentaries from around the world to Libyan audience to discuss issues related to human rights. Participants came with documentaries from Egypt, Syria, Liberia, UAE, Turkey, Italy and Libya and dealt with issues related to women, children and people with special needs.
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Legal Intervention of Italian Court of Appeal on LIA Assets Taken Upon Specific Request of ICC |
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The legal intervention of the Italian Court of Appeal on LIA assets was taken upon the specific request filed by the International Criminal Court in September 2011.
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Africa in Motion (AiM) Film Festival 2012 |
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In an exciting eleventh hour addition to Africa in Motion’s guest list of filmmakers attending the festival, Nigeria’s Tunde Kelani will be going to Scotland for the Glasgow and Edinburgh screenings of his film MAAMi on Tuesday October 30 and Wednesday 31.
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Learning to Live through Sacrifice |
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The historical background of Eid al-Adha is that the Prophet Abraham had a dream in which he was sacrificing his young son, Ismael. Abraham, a great believer in Allah, took his dream literally and wanted to sacrifice his son. But, according to the tradition, Allah, the Almighty, sent his angels and asked him to sacrifice an animal instead of his son.
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Notes from Shara Zawia: A Journal Kept in Tripoli |
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While having an interesting conversation with a fellow Tripoli region resident, I was told of a British lady who thinks there was probably no one who kept a diary of the days of 2011. That is not true, and there is a tradition of regular diary and journal keeping followed by some persons in Tripoli region. In the coming days we will reproduce some of these.
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Witness Libya |
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The high-adrenaline, high-risk world of the war-photographer is the slightly shaky focus of Witness: Libya, the first of a quartet of hour-long HBO films devised and executive-produced by Michael Mann.
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A Libyan Eid |
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Eid Elfitr is the celebration that occurs after a month of fasting and the translation is the breaking of the fast celebration. The feast itself starts with a very early Eid prayer in the Mosque. Chanting in mosques of (Allahhuakbar Wa Lilah Alhamd) God is great and praise is to Allah will echo all over Libya, indeed all over the Muslim world.
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The 10-10-10 philosophy of a Libyan Ramadan |
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Ramadan is perceived in thirds or ten-day intervals both from a religious point view and a materialistic point of view. Religiously speaking for Muslims the month of Ramadan is thought of as a chance at redemption from a year’s worth of sins.
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Ramadan in London: A Microcosm of the Arab World |
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I love the spiritual side of Ramadan in London,” Houda Mizioudet from Tunisia who is holidaying in London told The Tripoli Post. I don’t like Ramadan in Tunisia. I love the cosmopolitan side of London. You go to different London mosques. In any London mosque you find people from all over the world. It is like a microcosm [of the Muslim world.]
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Thriving Libyan Community in North London Enjoys Ramadan |
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Every Saturday during Ramadan London’s Libyan community has been hiring the Pakistani mosque and community centre in Willesden Green, North London for iftar, prayers and meetings. The young men enjoy a game of table tennis before and after prayers while the older men joked as they sat outside the prayer room on the warm summer evening.
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20Th of Ramadan Anniversary of the Conquest of Mecca & Liberation of Tripoli |
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The 20th of Ramadan is a very important date on the Muslim calendar. It’s a day that commemorates the return of the prophet (PBUH) to Mecca as a conquerer after he and his followers were hounded until they had to escape to Al Madina Almunawra.
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Eating Out in Tripoli! |
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Now that Libya is starting afresh with its new developing system, many new updates pop up everyday when it comes to street life! On my way home from work or classes, I always have the urge to go out and eat, not spend my whole evening cooking and doing dishes afterwards. That gets old after a few nights, plus the food loses its value of taste when you are over exhausted. Some suggestions for when one wants to eat out in Tripoli.
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Libyan Women at Ramadan |
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If we were to picture the Libyan Lifestyle as a human, then the Libyan women would probably be its spine that coordinates every little detail of its being but that is during the rest of the year because in Ramadan Libyan women become, super women.
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