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In a country where it is a revolutionary sin to name football players by sport commentators and where government officials are anonymous, banished to be known by their real names, where you are branded with the cursed seal of being born with all the wrong stereotypes. When you are guilty of bedouinism, terrorism, fascism, despotism, and racist bigotry, I can still draw a silly smile and face all the destruction and ugliness with an irritating and unrelenting optimism. I don’t claim divine wisdom, neither do I lack insight, but I can still look into the mirror of our past and […]

One of the few things that can drive me into mad and angry rant is how some Libyan officials come out on Libyan and Arab media to claim that we enjoy freedom of speech in our country. Not only that they try to persuade you to believe it using some certain way of primitive logical thinking, but they have the ability to utter any nonsense coming from their mouths with a solid and unflinching face. With the nationalisation of the semi-independent, semi-private Al Ghad (Tomorrow) media company, with its subsidiaries of newspapers, T.V and radio channels, we can proudly claim […]