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Items by Mohammed Deghayes
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Discover Leptis Magna, Libya
Rocked by war since popular protests toppled long-time dictator Muammar Gaddafi, Libya isn’t top of people’s holiday destinations anymore. However, this vast country is home to five world heritage sites and venturing into the gate to the Sahara once took you through a time warp into a history of...
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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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London comes out against war in Syria
Hundreds of people marched across London yesterday in solidarity with the Syrian people and their struggle against long-time ruler Bashar Al-Assad. The protests, which began at lunchtime, passed through the busy shopping district of Oxford Street, on to Regent Street, passed Piccadilly until it ended outside 10 Downing Street, the...
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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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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...