As an urbanist I love travelling, but I got bored with European cities which started to look alike. Instead I began travelling through North Africa, and discovered great urban design practices that I think don't get enough credit. A thread on North African🇲🇦🇩🇿🇹🇳🇱🇾🇪🇬 cities:

new open access publication: special issue of Quaderni di Studi Berberi e Libico-berberi on "Libya between History and Revolution: Resilience, New Opportunities and Challenges for the Berbers" #libyanstudies fedoabooks.unina.it/index.php/fedo…

Now I have your attention with Libyan sweet treats I need some assistance - Finding good in-depth non bullshitty writing on the last weeks in #Libya is proving hard - send me some good links please beoble! #Libyan #ProxyWar

We are really happy to announce our weekender of film, talks and screenings happening on the 25th and 26th July. The entire weekend is focused on exploring a cinema centring the ‘other’. For more details and free tickets: othercinemasweekender.eventbrite.co.uk

We are thrilled to announce the publication of the first issue of Lamma! The entire issue is available open access online, and in print for a small price. Please spread the word! #LibyanStudies #Libya #OpenAccess punctumbooks.com/titles/lamma-a…

"'Libyan Studies' must broaden its horizons and re-center the means and methods of knowledge production... while also accounting for the complex ideas, values, social configurations, histories, and material realities that constitute Libya." Lamma: A Journal of Libyan Studies punctumbooks.com/titles/lamma-a…

📸: still from Moments by Nadia Emam 𓂆 , Directed by Brett Chapman, poem written & performed by Nadia Emam. Nadia was one of the 6 filmmakers selected to participate in the 2018 edition of the SAFAR Film Development Workshop. Watch the award-winning short film on Nadia's profile

Libya university students doing their exams, during power cuts, heat and covid19

Not going to lie, the libya news this week is a bit much. Mostly I’m just thinking about what will happen next ?

it • far • fish That friend who just, for the life of them cannot keep still - forever wiggling, fidgeting and squiggling about. Or when they talk, they tend to babble and jabber incoherently. #Libya

“Nested within Libya’s ongoing civil war are a fog of falsehoods, distortions, and polarizing narratives that have engulfed Libyan social media networks and online news outlets” Check out this interview I did with Africa Center africacenter.org/spotlight/ligh…

Out now! Our new report exposes the full scale of Online #ViolenceAgainstWomen (#OVAW) in #Libya, and what the Libyan authorities and social media platforms must do to end it: bit.ly/3l3PKWO #VAW #Women #StopViolenceAgainstWomen #HumanRights

1/2 Our new report on Online #ViolenceAgainstWomen (#OVAW) in #Libya is out now: bit.ly/3l3PKWO OVAW can have lethal consequences on the ground, as the killings of several prominent Libyan #women in recent years shows.

“a force of art, filled with passion, courage and rightful indignation”... CineVue   Join The Marie Colvin Journalists' Network & The Circle March 22nd for a private screening of our inspiring, defiant, sisterhood film, +Q&A moderated by Lindsey Hilsum   #IWD everyday  eventbrite.co.uk/e/freedom-fiel…

"A moving portrait of the human spirit" - Author Hisham Matar on Freedom Fields. Get your tciket NOW for a private screening of this inspiring Libyan film on March 22 followed by Q&A. Proceedings to support our work at The Marie Colvin Journalists' Network. eventbrite.co.uk/e/freedom-fiel…

Thank you, @FKried, for attending our private screening of Freedom Fields by #MCJN mentor Naziha نزيهة and for writing this amazing review. english.alaraby.co.uk/english/societ…

AMCA Fundraiser: Help Repair the Dar Yusuf Nasri Jacir for Art and Research in Bethlehem! fundrazr.com/dar.jacir?ref=…