Region: Libya

Materials from Libya

The Shadows Of Ghadames

By shortk | Published: March 14, 2007
At the end of the nineteenth century in Libya, eleven-year-old Malika simultaneously enjoys and feels constricted by the narrow world of women, but an injured stranger enters her home and disrupts the traditional order of things.
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