Calling all Libyan playwrights, choreographers and multimedia artists

Calling all Libyan playwrights, choreographers and multimedia artists

Tripoli, 11 November: ‘Dancing on the Edge: Inspiring Middle Eastern Arts and Culture’, a Netherlands-based organisation that presents, promotes and supports Middle Eastern and North African arts and culture, is now looking for submissions for its 2013 multidisciplinary arts festival. The Dancing on the Edge 2013 festival will…

Cinema club launches today in Tripoli

Cinema club launches today in Tripoli

Tripoli, 13 October: Libyans now have the chance to watch a variety of critically-acclaimed world films, with the opening of the Arete Cinema Club. The launch of the Cinema Club today, Saturday 13 October will feature a showing of the award-winning 2011 Iranian film ‘A Separation.’ Starting at…

Tripoli to host first Arab Spring film festival

Tripoli, 10 May: The Ministry of Culture and Civil Society has approved the hosting of the first film festival for Arabic and Mediterranean cinema in Tripoli. The festival will present films of short and middle length pertaining to the Arab Spring uprisings that have transformed much of North…

International poetry festival starts Saturday

Tripoli, 27 April: Tripoli’s three-day International Poetry Festival starts tomorrow evening in the old city with poets from…

Boy with a video camera in the heart of conflict

Boy with a video camera in the heart of conflict

Tripoli: April 10 The 15 minute film War Zone, entered for a YouTube-sponsored festival, tells the story of…

Libyan group at Abu Dhabi Book Fair

Libyan group at Abu Dhabi Book Fair

A delegation from the Libyan Ministry of Culture headed by Libyan Culture and Civil Society Minister Dr Abdurrahman…

Qaddafi propaganda units closed

Tripoli, April 4: It has been announced that the government has disbanded eight media and cultural organisations established…

Cancellation of Benghazi concert causes anger

Benghazi, March 30: The last minute cancellation of a concert scheduled for Thursday night in Benghazi by Tunisian…

       

New Italian restaurant in Tripoli

New Italian restaurant in Tripoli

Tripoli, March 23: Tripoli’s Radisson Blu Mahary Hotel reopened its Filini restaurant on Wednesday evening with a grand…

Libyan author at Riyadh Book Fair

Tripoli, March 11: After being inactive for some 11 years, the Libyan cultural scene revived its international profile…