A young Muammar al Gaddafi on a Libyan banknote – currency as authority, and how to undermine it? Yasser the driver in our Alexandria hotel. …
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Wondering to what extent Adidas wraps itself in the Egyptian flag to avoid being targeted by protesting youths? Rather than aligning itself with the new …
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As border crossings go its slow but hustle-lite. An hour to figure out the dynamics of the visa process and stand with exit stamp in …
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Graffiti greeting visitors to the Libyan border town of Musa’id. Loosely translated as: “Thanks to the son of January 25th, from Libyans” “Don’t go down the path of …
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Today’s office is a 650km stretch of coastal highway from Cairo to Musa’id in Libya and an opportunity to experience the periphery of current events …
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See also: Is Internet Access a Human Right? These questions were originally meant to be weaved into a post here on Future Perfect – ended up …
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An interesting tech angle in the Libyan civil war is how local network Libyana has been subverted to carry communications traffic (mostly voice calls as …
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Every road trip needs a soundtrack – our journey down to the Egyptian-Libyan border supplied by Sayed Mekawi et al, and piped through this Jawbone …
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