Libya

Books in this genre are set in or about Libya.

The Return
In the Country of Men
My Friends
The Arab of the Future: A Childhood in the Middle East, 1978-1984
نزيف الحجر
التبر
Gaddafi's Harem: The Story of a Young Woman and the Abuses of Power in Libya
13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened In Benghazi
Under the Tripoli Sky
The Burning Shores: Inside the Battle for the New Libya
الكتاب الأخضر
Anatomy of a Disappearance
The Shadows of Ghadames
Sandstorm: Libya in the Time of Revolution
The Map of Salt and Stars

Clearly, the humanitarian relation is not a relation between equals. We are not our "brother's keepers" then, but rather we are more like animal keepers. Bombing for us is really just an animal management technology, and our relationship to the world remains a zoological one. ...more
Maximilian Forte

Emily St. John Mandel
He placed a pinch of snow on his tongue and thought of making snow ice cream with Frank and their mother when they were small boys - 'First you stir in the vanilla' - Frank standing on a stool on his wondrously functional pre-Libya legs, the bullet that would sever his spinal cord still twenty-five years away but already approaching: a woman giving birth to a child who will someday pull the trigger on a gun, a designer sketching the weapon or its precursor, a dictator making a decision that will ...more
Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

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