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Recognizing, and insisting on, the urgent need for such a forum, we give attention to as wide a range of disciplines, sources, and approaches as possible, foregrounding especially those that have previously received less scholarly attention. <em>Lamma</em> is a space where these fields interact and draw from one another. It is a platform where scholars and students from inside and outside of Libya gather to redefine and reshape “Libyan Studies.” For these reasons the journal takes its name from the Arabic word لمّة (<em>lamma</em>) “a gathering.”</p><p><strong>Submissions are currently being accepted.<br></strong></p></div><button class="c-marquee__sidebar-more">More</button></div></div></section><div class="c-columns"><main id="maincontent"><section class="o-columnbox1"><div class="c-itemactions"><div class="o-download"></div><details class="c-share"><summary><span>Share</span></summary><div><div class="c-share__list"><a class="c-share__email" href="">Email</a><a class="c-share__facebook" href="">Facebook</a></div></div></details></div><div class="o-customselector"><h2 class="o-customselector__heading">Volume 2, 2023</h2><details class="o-customselector__selector"><summary aria-label="Select a different issue"></summary><div class="o-customselector__menu"><ul class="o-customselector__items"><li><a href="/uc/lamma/2/0">Volume 2, 2023</a></li><li><a href="/uc/lamma/1/0">Volume 1, 2020</a></li></ul></div></details></div><div class="c-issue"><h3>Lamma 2</h3><figure class="c-issue__thumbnail"><a href="/cms-assets/89d47b876272fdd04bffc1a9fdc5b93abd0a2d24a6084a6ffc3b46f99131014c" target="_blank"><img class="c-lazyimage" data-src="/cms-assets/89d47b876272fdd04bffc1a9fdc5b93abd0a2d24a6084a6ffc3b46f99131014c" alt="Issue cover"/></a></figure><div class="c-issue__description"><div class="c-clientmarkup"><p> </p> <p></p> <p></p></div></div></div><div><div><h3 class="o-heading1a">Articles</h3><div class="c-pub"><h4 class="c-pub__heading"><a href="/uc/item/48d4r77p"><div class="c-clientmarkup">The Tuareg dialect of Ghat in 1850</div></a></h4><div class="c-authorlist"><ul class="c-authorlist__list"><li class="c-authorlist__begin"><a href="/search/?q=author%3ASouag%2C%20Lameen">Souag, Lameen</a>; </li><li class="c-authorlist__end"><a href="/search/?q=author%3ABenkato%2C%20Adam">Benkato, Adam</a> </li></ul></div><div class="c-pub__abstract"><div class="c-clientmarkup"><p>During a short stay in Ghat in 1850, the British explorer James Richardson arranged for Muhammad Sharif to translate a list of words and phrases into the Tuareg variety spoken by the Uraghen tribe of the area, variably termed Tamahaq or Tamajeq by its speakers at the time. This article provides a transcription, retranscription, retranslation, and analysis of this previously unpublished material. The results provide data relevant to sociolinguistic variation in Ghat, proving the importance of variation even within a single idiolect, including for reflexes of the key Tuareg shibboleth *z > h vs. > z, ž. These phrases also reveal some morphological archaisms not otherwise attested in Tuareg, most notably traces of a person marking system matching the Ghadamsi “future”.</p></div></div></div><div class="c-pub"><h4 class="c-pub__heading"><a href="/uc/item/52h7w5g4"><div class="c-clientmarkup">Methods and Sources for a New Generation of Libyan Studies: A Roundtable</div></a></h4><div class="c-authorlist"><ul class="c-authorlist__list"><li class="c-authorlist__begin"><a href="/search/?q=author%3ATayeb%2C%20Leila">Tayeb, Leila</a> </li></ul></div></div><div class="c-pub"><h4 class="c-pub__heading"><a href="/uc/item/8550z45j"><div class="c-clientmarkup">Research on Language in Libya</div></a></h4><div class="c-authorlist"><ul class="c-authorlist__list"><li class="c-authorlist__begin"><a href="/search/?q=author%3ABenkato%2C%20Adam">Benkato, Adam</a> </li></ul></div></div><div class="c-pub"><h4 class="c-pub__heading"><a href="/uc/item/8fh8132k"><div class="c-clientmarkup">Challenges and Promises Related to Research on Women and Public Space in Tripoli, Libya</div></a></h4><div class="c-authorlist"><ul class="c-authorlist__list"><li class="c-authorlist__begin"><a href="/search/?q=author%3AElmenghawi%2C%20Fathia">Elmenghawi, Fathia</a> </li></ul></div></div><div class="c-pub"><h4 class="c-pub__heading"><a href="/uc/item/11w4n6cf"><div class="c-clientmarkup">Field Research in Libya</div></a></h4><div class="c-authorlist"><ul class="c-authorlist__list"><li class="c-authorlist__begin"><a href="/search/?q=author%3AKhalifa%2C%20Asma">Khalifa, Asma</a> </li></ul></div></div><div class="c-pub"><h4 class="c-pub__heading"><a href="/uc/item/7mw2n8rp"><div class="c-clientmarkup">Knowing Libya: Ethnography</div></a></h4><div class="c-authorlist"><ul class="c-authorlist__list"><li class="c-authorlist__begin"><a href="/search/?q=author%3ATayeb%2C%20Leila">Tayeb, Leila</a> </li></ul></div></div><div class="c-pub"><h4 class="c-pub__heading"><a href="/uc/item/43f105d8"><div 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