The best of the Libyan Blogosphere: November 2006

OK I'm introducing another monthly feature , my choice of the best posts from the Libyan blogs :) - in no particular order . Let's see if I can keep this up

Khadijateri - Giving thanks my own way : " Everybody liked learning something that they had had misconceptions about. We finished the class by talking about different types of holidays and the meanings of different things that symbolized certain holidays, for example the Christmas tree, candles for Miloud, fool (broad beans)for Ashura, etc" [more] (hint to Khadija pls activate the permalink to each post it is difficult to link to particular posts otherwise thank you ).

Smokeyspice - Words without borders : " . What I do believe is that there are treasures of stories among Libyans that are waiting for the right time or the right question. " [more] ( make sure to check the comment section)

Lovelytripoli - Old memories from Alzara Air Tripoli : " Unfortunately worked that this historic building would be transferred to the place of recreation for foreigners ...!" [ she means I unfortunately learned that this historic building will be transformed into a place of recreation for foreigners - how sad :( ] [more]

D-Log - My take : "I'm thankful for connecting the broken links in my life, for building bridges, for picking up again [more] .

Flying birds - Douce mere : " dedicate this song for all the mothers out there, as today its my mother birthday may Allah bless her and keep her to me." [more ] .

Safia speaks - Waving goodbye to Rumsfeld: "I used to admire Rumsfield for dealing swiftly and tactical - agreed his strategics didn´t always pay out - but he wasn´t afraid to swing the fists of iron when needed. That´s the right attitude for any secretary of defense. Problem was only that Rumsfelds fists hit the wrong bastards." [more] .

Libyano - My killing wish list : "A girl who parked in front of my car and made me wait hours till she came " [more ].

Tripoli Ghibli - For the love of one's country : " When the students first saw us they laughed they thought we had lost our minds , for we were teachers and not servants, believing this to be a job for servants , for why did the school have cleaning people ??!! After seeing our insistence, they started to help us out and the playground was as clean as could be.This was a lesson, that of awareness which many students till today have not forgotten" [more ]

My Enchanting Sereeb - The Libyan Halloween -Al Fatasha : "The Libyan Halloween is called Al-Fatasha الفتاشة and it is celebrated in the middle of winter (I can’t remember the exact date but I remember it was in mid winter). In that day we cook special food and in the evening we gather around the charcoal brazier telling ghost stories." [more] {amazing :) , if we all make a petition for a comment section maybe Soad will relent) .

Anglolibyan - Smuggling Libyan Tortoises : "these tortoises are protected by law in Europe and smuggling them is an offence, in fact they are so rare they have been put on the protected animals list that includes tigers.
400 of these small tortoises have been lost because of the action of this stupid man, Italy will never return these animals, they will be put in zoos and given to private collectors, again the wealth of Libya is being exploited by some people who are just hungry for money but have no respect for their own land. " [more].

Lebeeya says - Email : "During the course of the 10 days in which Muaad stayed with me, I have come to the conclusion that our youngest brother is truly a peculiar creature in all manners of his behaviour." [more].

White African - Untitled : " the same lady a couple of months ago was sat in the reception area and was speaking to a devout Christian lady, both these woman are Arab. The opinionated lady was telling the Christian lady that she should do the shahadah before its to late.." [more ]

Libyanviolet - The Baby : " What would you do ? share a man you loved with his family and fulfill you past dream safe in the knowledge that he will take care of you forever. Or go and have your baby with a man you love but don't need to share with anyone but at the same time where nothing is guaranteed except the excitement of starting a new life, new horizons and no complications ......." [more] .

Moments in my life - Email Scams : " the first one was sent to me (or as the email say) from an American soldier who needs my assistance in smuggling $12.8 million Dollars out of Iraq ( he sent me his picture and a picture of the money!!!) : " [more].

Imtidad : This is how I celebrated my birthday: "I'm 31 for the last time.." [more]

Lu-Ti - My dream photographer : " ok i'll share one of my dreams .. i dream of a wall in my own house with pictures ,black and white picture for me and my husband , many sizes that should be designed to make a perfect look to the wall of the living room or that wall leads to the kitchen " [more ]

Our Little Family Adventures -Books books books : " well i know that this post is kind of boring ,,, but since i`m in the middle of my studies and all i see around me is books ,, therefore i got this idea of posting about books ,,, my ultimate passion!!!" [more]

The Sultan - Pork Man on the Rampage ( it's actually October 30 but he has not posted much on November) : ""Apparently on this day strangers, dressed up in farm animals, go around randomly hugging strangers in Holland as a way to foster and spread love. Not wanting to offend Dutch sensibilities, I tried to keep an open mind and suppressed my cultural disinclination toward pork products and male intimacy. " [more]. PS 1-12-06 it appears that the Sultan may be Iraqi if anyone knows please inform us- at any rate his blog is cool and he still looks Libyan :P . update 2-12-06 OK it is confirmed Sultan is Iraqi thank you Anon.

Abughilan - Story of Mirja : " Mirja is Finish. She left Hauho in Finland first time in her life on 9 September, 2002. She crossed Latvia, Poland, Hungary, Croatia, Montenegro and arrived after seven days finally to NW Greece where she stayed for five weeks storing up energy.
She then crossed the Mediterranean to Egypt, Libya " [more ]

Aladdin of Tripoli - Thank you dad : " I keep wishing that you could change a lot of things on you dad , I always wanted to discover the dark side of you , I always feel like shouting into your face , I hate you and and I love and I love and I hate you and I love in the same time" [more] ( if you ever hated your dad pls think again and read the comment section ).

Tears in Heaven - A city of dust : " Every Windy morning, my doctor came to us with red eyes and hard sneezing and coughing, he had a dust allergy. He was always telling us that it’s a crime to build a cement factory inside the city, he told us that in other countries the cement factory is always placed outside the city and very far from it." [more] ( the silent environment polution :( )

On Tripoli - Sfenz of Gurgji ( Libyan dougnut) : " This is an ancient tradition, originally done by the Jews of North Africa in general" [more] .

Braveheart - Klam Anas (aka what will people think or say ) : " Ohhhhhh my god how many time we make weight to the people’s views and it was wrong, how many times we did thing against our believe just to take care about what the people say, “klaam alnas” how many times these two words destroyed our life, why we must care about people views if we believe we do the right thing. " [more].

Take it easy - Mood : " .. you see it is tough for us libyans to be calm and pretend we r healthy and normal by general international standards … we aren’t normal by circumstances, are we, really?" [more] ( It's such a pity Cofman deleted some of his posts my favourite was his personal statement criticisin us Libyans and Arabs that was such a cool post - but I guess the Libyan blogosphere community has touched him :) and now he is "slowly feeling like a Libyan".Congrats Cofman ! I'm happy for you.)

Many of these blogs are new, so go enjoy the Libyans and learn a little bit more about us
I'm sorry if I missed anyone but the rest are on hiatus :P they should blog more ...