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206 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1975
The medina: rubbish-strewn wynds, a ground of earth and sand, black bulbs of women walking with plastic bags of shopping, cats playing in litter, a smell of stale water and faeces, cross-streets glimpsed at the far ends of alleyways, light filtered by overhanging matting, a chiaroscuro peek at a tailor bent over an ancient Singer. The Libyan tricolor daubed on a corner, with a finger of green running down the uneven stone. Graffiti is everywhere. GO WAY GADAFI LIBIA FRE. February 17. 賱賷亘賷丕 丨乇丞 [Free Libya]. THANK YOU NATO. There are Amazigh yaz symbols all over the place. Walking through the suqs, 10-yr-old kid came walking towards me carrying a sawn-off shotgun. He pointed it at a cat lounging in a pile of refuse and grinned.