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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 1, 2020</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"><figure class="c-issue__thumbnail"><a href="/cms-assets/a06ae79e028e98591d70bd8b7a6d549fb34a04a1b5678c8ab872197b2861a2bd" target="_blank"><img class="c-lazyimage" data-src="/cms-assets/a06ae79e028e98591d70bd8b7a6d549fb34a04a1b5678c8ab872197b2861a2bd" alt="Issue cover"/></a></figure></div><div><div><h3 class="o-heading1a">Articles</h3><div class="c-pub"><h4 class="c-pub__heading"><a href="/uc/item/72f2765t"><div class="c-clientmarkup">A Gathering</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/83d8w5v5"><div class="c-clientmarkup">Re-Centering Libya’s History: Mediterranean Bulwark, Defender of Africa, or Bridge between Continents?</div></a></h4><div class="c-authorlist"><ul class="c-authorlist__list"><li class="c-authorlist__begin"><a href="/search/?q=author%3AKrais%2C%20Jakob">Krais, Jakob</a> </li></ul></div><div class="c-pub__abstract"><div class="c-clientmarkup"><p>This paper discusses Libya’s geo-historical identity from the Italian colonial period until the end of the Qaddafi regime. It specifically looks at characterizations of the country as Mediterranean or African in the different periods. By examining the historiographic discourse in Italian and Arabic as well as the political aesthetics and symbolisms connected with the colonial and the Qaddafi regime, respectively, the article shows how varying characterizations were linked to geo-political agendas. Finally, it presents a third characterization: that of Libya as a connecting link between regions and continents, which has become prominent in more recent times.</p><p> </p><p>يناقش هذا البحث الهوية الجغرافية التاريخية الليبية بدءاً بالإحتلال الإيطالي حتى فترة نهاية حكم القذافي. وتختص الدراسة بالنظر إلى خصائص ليبيا كدولة أفريقية وشرق أوسطية في فترات زمنية مختلفة. بعد تفحيص سياق التأريخ بالإيطالية والعربية، بالإضافة إلى الجماليات السياسية والرمزية المرتبطة بعهدي الإحتلال والقذافي على التوالي، فإن الدراسة تظهر أنً خصائص مختلفة ترتبط بأجندات سياسية-جغرافية. وتقدم هذه الدراسة .خاصية ثالثة: ليبيا أصبحت حديثا حلقة وصل بين مناطق وقارات بصورة واضحة</p></div></div></div><div class="c-pub"><h4 class="c-pub__heading"><a href="/uc/item/2zd7w09d"><div class="c-clientmarkup">The Construction of Virility and Performance of Masculinities in the Language Practices of Young Men in Tripoli</div></a></h4><div class="c-authorlist"><ul class="c-authorlist__list"><li class="c-authorlist__begin"><a href="/search/?q=author%3APereira%2C%20Christophe">Pereira, Christophe</a> </li></ul></div><div class="c-pub__abstract"><div class="c-clientmarkup"><p>This article analyzes the socio/linguistic construction of gender in Arabic in Tripoli, showing how young Libyan men make use of a type of virile and masculine speech as part of their performance of gender. Analyzing the interactions of a group of young men through participant observation and a resulting corpus of spontaneous recordings of speech, this analysis shows how, in their self-expression, certain young Libyan men perform their speech practices towards hegemonic, gendered goals, exalting virilizing values and foregrounding heterosexism by means of transgressive language practices. These language practices express domination, heterosexism, and homosociality, permitting them to distinguish themselves from women and others discursively and interactively constructed as inferiors, in order to validate their existence as dominant males.</p><p> </p><p>تحلل هذه الدراسة التركيبة الإجتماعية/اللغوية للهوية الجنسية في طرابلس وكيف يستخدم الشباب الأسلوب الفحولي والرجولي في الكلام للتعبير عن هويتهم. كما تسلط الدراسة الضوء على كيفية تفاعل هؤلاء الشباب في مجموعات من خلال تحليل مراقبة المشاركين في الدراسة ونتائج تسجيل لغتهم العفوية. تظهر التحليلات أيضاً كيف يعبر هؤلاء الشباب، بأسلوبهم الخاص، عن هويتهم للوصول لأهداف مهيمنة ويمجدون بها قيمهم الرجولية و تأكيد التفرقة الجنسية من خلال ممارسة الأسلوب الطغياني. هذا المنهج اللغوي يؤكد هيمنتهم الإجتماعية يفصلهم عن فئة النساء وغيرهم بشكل استطرادي وتفاعلي على أن غيرهم من فئات المجتمع أقل شأناً منهم .وبذلك تعزز من هيمنتهم ووجودهم كذكور</p><p> </p></div></div></div><div class="c-pub"><h4 class="c-pub__heading"><a href="/uc/item/27m506fc"><div class="c-clientmarkup">Retracing a Disappearing Landscape: On Libyan Cultural Memory</div></a></h4><div class="c-authorlist"><ul class="c-authorlist__list"><li class="c-authorlist__begin"><a href="/search/?q=author%3AQutait%2C%20Tasnim">Qutait, Tasnim</a> </li></ul></div></div><div class="c-pub"><h4 class="c-pub__heading"><a href="/uc/item/7w13679d"><div class="c-clientmarkup">Building Bayt Ali Gana</div></a></h4><div class="c-authorlist"><ul class="c-authorlist__list"><li class="c-authorlist__begin"><a href="/search/?q=author%3AGana%2C%20Hadia">Gana, Hadia</a> </li></ul></div></div><div class="c-pub"><h4 class="c-pub__heading"><a href="/uc/item/3jc583n9"><div class="c-clientmarkup">“The Whole Shadow of Man”: Alessandro Spina’s Libyan Epic</div></a></h4><div class="c-authorlist"><ul class="c-authorlist__list"><li class="c-authorlist__begin"><a href="/search/?q=author%3ANaffis-Sahely%2C%20Andr%C3%A9">Naffis-Sahely, André</a> </li></ul></div><div class="c-pub__abstract"><div class="c-clientmarkup"><p>Including two translated excerpts from <em>The Fourth Shore</em>, Volume 2 of <em>The Confines of the Shadow</em></p></div></div></div><div class="c-pub"><h4 class="c-pub__heading"><a href="/uc/item/5px7d30d"><div class="c-clientmarkup">A Pool of Water: Perspectives on the Libyan Revolution</div></a></h4><div class="c-authorlist"><ul class="c-authorlist__list"><li class="c-authorlist__begin"><a href="/search/?q=author%3AAnderson%2C%20Lisa">Anderson, Lisa</a> </li></ul></div><div class="c-pub__abstract"><div class="c-clientmarkup"><p>Review article of: Hisham Matar, The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between; Peter Cole and Brian McQuinn, eds., The Libyan Revolution and Its Aftermath; Christopher Chivvis, Toppling Qaddafi: Libya and the Limits of Liberal Intervention; Ethan Chorin, Exit the Colonel: The Hidden History of the Libyan Revolution; Maximilian Forte, Slouching Towards Sirte: NATO’s War on Libya and Africa; Lindsey Hilsum, Sandstorm: Libya in the Time of Revolution; Alison Pargeter, Libya: The Rise and Fall of Qaddafi;</p></div></div></div><div class="c-pub"><h4 class="c-pub__heading"><a href="/uc/item/5nv1j9z0"><div class="c-clientmarkup">Review of The Slave Pens by Najwa Bin Shatwan</div></a></h4><div class="c-authorlist"><ul class="c-authorlist__list"><li class="c-authorlist__begin"><a href="/search/?q=author%3ALtifi%2C%20Afifa">Ltifi, Afifa</a> </li></ul></div></div><div class="c-pub"><h4 class="c-pub__heading"><a href="/uc/item/4jv11928"><div class="c-clientmarkup">Review of Review of Jewish Libya: Memory & Identity in Text & Image, edited by Jacques Roumani, David Meghnagi, & Judith Roumani</div></a></h4><div class="c-authorlist"><ul class="c-authorlist__list"><li class="c-authorlist__begin"><a href="/search/?q=author%3AAbdulhaq%2C%20Najat">Abdulhaq, Najat</a> </li></ul></div></div></div></div></section></main><aside><section class="o-columnbox1"><header><h2>Journal Information</h2></header><div class="c-journalinfo"><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/" class="c-publocation__license"><img class="c-lazyimage" data-src="/images/cc-by-nc-nd-large.svg" alt="Creative Commons 'BY-NC-ND' version 4.0 license"/></a><ul><li><b>ISSN:</b> 2642-861X</li><li><b>e-ISSN:</b> 2642-8628</li></ul></div></section><div><section class="o-columnbox1"><header><h2>Recent Articles</h2></header><ul class="c-relateditems"><li><h3><a class="o-textlink__secondary" href="/uc/item/43f105d8"><div class="c-clientmarkup">Libyan Studies: A Call to Sociology</div></a></h3><div class="c-authorlist"><ul class="c-authorlist__list"><li class="c-authorlist__begin"><a href="/search/?q=author%3AZarrugh%2C%20Amina">Zarrugh, Amina</a> </li></ul></div></li><li><h3><a class="o-textlink__secondary" href="/uc/item/48h8q1zw"><div class="c-clientmarkup">Lamma 2 Front Matter</div></a></h3><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></li><li><h3><a class="o-textlink__secondary" href="/uc/item/584036x4"><div class="c-clientmarkup">Ayt Innej: The Oasis Folks</div></a></h3><div class="c-authorlist"><ul class="c-authorlist__list"><li class="c-authorlist__begin"><a href="/search/?q=author%3Aal-Imam%2C%20Ibrahim">al-Imam, Ibrahim</a> </li></ul></div></li><li><h3><a class="o-textlink__secondary" href="/uc/item/5d36j9dh"><div class="c-clientmarkup">Uncovering Concealed Pasts, Centering Silenced Knowledges</div></a></h3><div class="c-authorlist"><ul class="c-authorlist__list"><li class="c-authorlist__begin"><a href="/search/?q=author%3ABengezi%2C%20Khaoula">Bengezi, Khaoula</a> </li></ul></div></li><li><h3><a class="o-textlink__secondary" href="/uc/item/7mw2n8rp"><div class="c-clientmarkup">Knowing Libya: Ethnography</div></a></h3><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></li></ul></section></div></aside></div></div></div><div><div class="c-toplink"><a href="javascript:window.scrollTo(0, 0)">Top</a></div><footer class="c-footer"><nav class="c-footer__nav"><ul><li><a href="/">Home</a></li><li><a href="/aboutEschol">About eScholarship</a></li><li><a href="/campuses">Campus Sites</a></li><li><a href="/ucoapolicies">UC Open Access Policy</a></li><li><a href="/publishing">eScholarship Publishing</a></li><li><a href="https://www.cdlib.org/about/accessibility.html">Accessibility</a></li><li><a href="/privacypolicy">Privacy Statement</a></li><li><a href="/policies">Site Policies</a></li><li><a href="/terms">Terms of Use</a></li><li><a href="/login"><strong>Admin Login</strong></a></li><li><a href="https://help.escholarship.org"><strong>Help</strong></a></li></ul></nav><div class="c-footer__logo"><a href="/"><img class="c-lazyimage" data-src="/images/logo_footer-eschol.svg" alt="eScholarship, University of California"/></a></div><div class="c-footer__copyright">Powered by the<br/><a href="http://www.cdlib.org">California Digital Library</a><br/>Copyright © 2017<br/>The Regents of the University of California</div></footer></div></div></div></div> <script src="/js/vendors~app-bundle-fc30d3841e97c6d158c5.js"></script> <script src="/js/app-bundle-d5d7b6b21ce6285baa3b.js"></script> </body> </html>