Fast Food Nation? Foreign Franchises in Libya

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Johnny Rocket’s and Burger Fuel among others preparing to move into Tripoli.

Ghanem’s death connected to corruption charges?

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The roundup for the week of April 30th, 2012.

The Libyan Flag: A Relic of What Lies Ahead

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The new flag is an unescapable motif in “Free Libya” — but can what once was a rallying symbol in revolutionary Libya be used to mollify instead?

Khaled Mattawa’s “Fifty April Years”

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Libyan-American writer Khaled Mattawa pens a poem on the student executions of the Gaddafi years.

Welcome to Budhoor

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Budhoor is Kifah Libya’s younger, less serious sister-blog. Watch this space — it’ll get more interesting soon.