Libyan Heritage, Identity
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Memory in postcolonial Italy and Libya has been used, reinterpreted and staged by political powers and the media. This book investigates the roots of myth, colonial amnesia and censorship in postwar Italy, as well as Colonel Gaddafi’s... more
This paper re-examines the evidence for the diffusion of foggara-based irrigation across the Sahara in ancient and medieval times. Recent fieldwork by the Fazzan project has established that the foggaras of the Wadi al-Ajal in Libya are... more
The multivarious arrangement of mosaic floor pavements in Greek and Roman houses provides us today with clues as to the presumed function of the rooms they decorated. This is something that Pierre Gros recently evoked in his... more
This is an article that gives a brief account on the history of the Libyan novel. It also illustrates the most important stages that the Libyan novel came across since its beginnings until our present days. However, it is not intended to... more
La présente contribution présente une stèle inédite déposée près de l’entrée principale de la casbah qui domine la ville d’El Kef, l’antique Sicca Veneria, en Tunisie centrale occidentale. Il s’agit d’une stèle punique tardive, datable... more
In the present article, the author intends, through the presentation of some cases (Portugal, Libya, India, Nigeria, Mozambique) that occurred recently, of patrimonial destructions - focusing on the Portuguese case, to demonstrate the... more
A brief description of Murad Reis of the Karamanlis of Tripoli
This chapter examines the use and function of neo-Punic inscriptions and neo-Punic/Latin bilingual inscriptions in Roman North Africa, especially Lepcis Magna. It considers how and why Punic was used as a language for monumental... more
Reconnaissance survey in the Murzuq area, some 150 km south-east of Jarma, was carried out as part of the 2011 field programme of the Desert Migrations Project, with separate funding from the Leverhulme Trust for this element of work... more