Mohammed Deghayes
British-Libyan undergraduate student of Media Communications and Sociology. Commenting on social, media and political affairs in Libya and the Middle East.
Items by Mohammed Deghayes
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- April 20, 2017 Mohammed Deghayes
Discover Leptis Magna, Libya
Leptis Magna was declared a World Heritage Site in 1982 because it was classed as one of the most beautiful cities of the Roman world...
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- April 7, 2017 Mohammed Deghayes
Will Syria become the next Libya?
Karl Marx once said: “History repeats itself, first as a tragedy, second and as a farce”, it is upon this notion that the free world has been unhinged in its involvement in the Syrian conflict. Fixed upon its reason to suggest that Syria will in fact become another Libya....
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- March 19, 2017 Mohammed Deghayes
London comes out against war in Syria
The march was organised as a follow-up to the protest for the massacred civilians of Aleppo in December....
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- March 10, 2017 Mohammed Deghayes
Buried under bullets: Recovering Libya’s lost history
Libya is rich in more than just oil, but its cultural heritage in the war-torn north African country of Libya has been long forgotten, left to international organisations to preserve. A country that is unable to withstand the sands of time as large enclaves of heritage sites go untended...
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- February 17, 2017 Mohammed Deghayes
Drowning off the coast of Libya
Over the past two years, the channel crossing in the Mediterranean between Libya and Italy saw some of the highest death tolls of refugees dying in their attempt to cross the border into Europe. The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, expressed this alarming toll in its 2015 report with the...