Assala Nasri has been condemned by the Lybian authorities for showing the image of Omar Al-Mukhtar next to Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi in her new music video.
Read More »Libya: Military police shuts down comic book exhibition, arrests organisers
Libya's RADA Special Deterrent Forces shut down a comic book convention in Tripoli and arrested the event organisers for violating public morality.
Read More »Libya: Security forces confiscate novels from bookstore
The Tejwal bookstore in Tripoli has stopped importing books from Egypt on 8 April 2017 after security forces confiscated 31 fictional book titles.
Read More »Libya: Authorities confiscate truckload of books
Authorities in the eastern town of Marj seized a truckload of “un-Islamic” books imported from Egypt on their way to Benghazi.
Read More »Libya: Photos of instrument-burning distributed online
An information office of The Islamic State, Isis, in Libya has published photos of its militants burning musical instruments they said were confiscated in line with the radical group’s interpretation of Sharia law. Instrumental music is banned according to the extreme form of Salafi Islam practiced by Islamic State. » …
Read More »Libya: Musicians for the first time on national radio
Three weeks earlier, guitarist Fuad Ramadan could have been arrested for performing most of his songs in public. Now he is for the first time invited to perform live on national radio, reported the American public service radio NPR Musicians and other Libyans who once dared not express themselves are finding …
Read More »Libya: Anonymity a growing trend among revolutionary singers
Since the 17 February revolution began in Benghazi, new songs by unknown, young singers are being uploaded and distributed almost daily via the Internet. The singers of ‘The Arab Spring’ disregard all copyright-concern and the possibility of establishing a name for themselves from their music-making. In an article about ‘Libya’s …
Read More »Libya: Imprisoned Berber musician on hunger strike
Abdullah Ashini, a popular Amazigh singer in Libya, is reported to have started an indifinite hunger strike in his prison cell. In December 2010, he was convicted and given a five-year prison sentence on charges for ‘illegal migration’. The popular Berber singer from the village of Zuara has since the …
Read More »1970-1989 Middle East, North Africa
1978 til 2011. Libya. Various artists The 1970s saw two urban trends emerge in Libya, as well as the emergence of the country’s first modern female signers. All this diversity pretty much ended in the late 1970s. Gaddafi’s aggressive ideological dictates began to infiltrate all cultural production in Libya. The …
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