Recent lamma items

Lamma 2 Front Matter

Tue, 25 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Lamma 2 Front Matter

Challenges and Promises Related to Research on Women and Public Space in Tripoli, Libya

Thu, 22 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Challenges and Promises Related to Research on Women and Public Space in Tripoli, Libya

Knowing Libya: Ethnography

Thu, 22 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Knowing Libya: Ethnography

Review of Women in the Modern History of Libya

Thu, 22 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Review of Women in the Modern History of Libya

Uncovering Concealed Pasts, Centering Silenced Knowledges

Thu, 22 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Uncovering Concealed Pasts, Centering Silenced Knowledges

Ayt Innej: The Oasis Folks

Thu, 22 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Translated by Safa Elnaili

Libyan Studies: A Call to Sociology

Thu, 22 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Libyan Studies: A Call to Sociology

Review of In Vested Interests: From Passion to Patronage, The AbdulMagid Breish Collection of Arab Art

Thu, 22 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Review of In Vested Interests: From Passion to Patronage, The AbdulMagid Breish Collection of Arab Art

Review of Religion as Resistance: Negotiating Authority in Italian Libya

Thu, 22 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Review of Religion as Resistance: Negotiating Authority in Italian Libya

Rising from Shar: A Meditation on the Future of our History

Thu, 22 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Rising from Shar: A Meditation on the Future of our History

The Shore is the Land

Thu, 22 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000

The Shore is the Land

موسسة تجرُّد ومهمة العمارة والفنون الإصلاحية في ليبيا وما وراءها

Thu, 22 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000

موسسة تجرُّد ومهمة العمارة والفنون الإصلاحية في ليبيا وما وراءها

Field Research in Libya

Thu, 22 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Field Research in Libya

Qtelni ash-shar

Thu, 22 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Qtelni ash-shar

Research on Language in Libya

Tue, 20 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Research on Language in Libya

Methods and Sources for a New Generation of Libyan Studies: A Roundtable

Tue, 20 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Methods and Sources for a New Generation of Libyan Studies: A Roundtable

The Tuareg dialect of Ghat in 1850

Tue, 20 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000

During a short stay in Ghat in 1850, the British explorer James Richardson arranged for Muhammad Sharif to translate a list of words and phrases into the Tuareg variety spoken by the Uraghen tribe of the area, variably termed Tamahaq or Tamajeq by its speakers at the time. This article provides a transcription, retranscription, retranslation, and analysis of this previously unpublished material. The results provide data relevant to sociolinguistic variation in Ghat, proving the importance of variation even within a single idiolect, including for reflexes of the key Tuareg shibboleth *z > h vs. > z, ž. These phrases also reveal some morphological archaisms not otherwise attested in Tuareg, most notably traces of a person marking system matching the Ghadamsi “future”.

Re-Centering Libya’s History: Mediterranean Bulwark, Defender of Africa, or Bridge between Continents?

Wed, 27 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

This paper discusses Libya’s geo-historical identity from the Italian colonial period until the end of the Qaddafi regime. It specifically looks at characterizations of the country as Mediterranean or African in the different periods. By examining the historiographic discourse in Italian and Arabic as well as the political aesthetics and symbolisms connected with the colonial and the Qaddafi regime, respectively, the article shows how varying characterizations were linked to geo-political agendas. Finally, it presents a third characterization: that of Libya as a connecting link between regions and continents, which has become prominent in more recent times.

يناقش هذا البحث الهوية الجغرافية التاريخية الليبية بدءاً بالإحتلال الإيطالي حتى فترة نهاية حكم القذافي. وتختص الدراسة بالنظر إلى خصائص ليبيا كدولة أفريقية وشرق أوسطية في فترات زمنية مختلفة. بعد تفحيص سياق التأريخ بالإيطالية والعربية، بالإضافة إلى الجماليات السياسية والرمزية المرتبطة بعهدي الإحتلال...

Building Bayt Ali Gana

Wed, 27 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Building Bayt Ali Gana

A Gathering

Wed, 27 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

A Gathering

A Pool of Water: Perspectives on the Libyan Revolution

Wed, 27 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Review article of: Hisham Matar, The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between; Peter Cole and Brian McQuinn, eds., The Libyan Revolution and Its Aftermath; Christopher Chivvis, Toppling Qaddafi: Libya and the Limits of Liberal Intervention; Ethan Chorin, Exit the Colonel: The Hidden History of the Libyan Revolution; Maximilian Forte, Slouching Towards Sirte: NATO’s War on Libya and Africa; Lindsey Hilsum, Sandstorm: Libya in the Time of Revolution; Alison Pargeter, Libya: The Rise and Fall of Qaddafi;

Review of The Slave Pens by Najwa Bin Shatwan

Wed, 27 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Review of The Slave Pens by Najwa Bin Shatwan

Review of Review of Jewish Libya: Memory & Identity in Text & Image, edited by Jacques Roumani, David Meghnagi, & Judith Roumani

Wed, 27 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Review of Review of Jewish Libya: Memory & Identity in Text & Image, edited by Jacques Roumani, David Meghnagi, & Judith Roumani

“The Whole Shadow of Man”: Alessandro Spina’s Libyan Epic

Wed, 27 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Including two translated excerpts from The Fourth Shore, Volume 2 of The Confines of the Shadow

The Construction of Virility and Performance of Masculinities in the Language Practices of Young Men in Tripoli

Wed, 27 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

This article analyzes the socio/linguistic construction of gender in Arabic in Tripoli, showing how young Libyan men make use of a type of virile and masculine speech as part of their performance of gender. Analyzing the interactions of a group of young men through participant observation and a resulting corpus of spontaneous recordings of speech, this analysis shows how, in their self-expression, certain young Libyan men perform their speech practices towards hegemonic, gendered goals, exalting virilizing values and foregrounding heterosexism by means of transgressive language practices. These language practices express domination, heterosexism, and homosociality, permitting them to distinguish themselves from women and others discursively and interactively constructed as inferiors, in order to validate their existence as dominant males.

تحلل هذه الدراسة التركيبة الإجتماعية/اللغوية للهوية الجنسية في طرابلس وكيف يستخدم الشباب الأسلوب الفحولي والرجولي في الكلام...

Retracing a Disappearing Landscape: On Libyan Cultural Memory

Wed, 27 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Retracing a Disappearing Landscape: On Libyan Cultural Memory