Residents of Tripoli and Benghazi are divided about what should be done with their Italian colonial heritage.
![An official Italian colonial building - once used as the university - in the old town of Benghazi as it appeared in 2007 before civil war and the ensuing regeneration projects took hold [Eric Lafforgue/Art in All of Us/Corbis via Getty Images]](/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/GettyImages-1304108849-1-1720780406.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Naima Morelli is an arts and culture writer with a particular interest in contemporary art from the Middle East, North Africa and the Asia-Pacific reg... ion. She is a regular contributor to Middle East Eye, Middle East Monitor, CoBo Social and Culture360, among others, and she is the author of two books: “Arte Contemporanea in Indonesia, un’introduzione” and “The Singapore Series: a contemporary art reportage”.
Residents of Tripoli and Benghazi are divided about what should be done with their Italian colonial heritage.
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