Libyan in Twilight: The Story of an Arab Jew Tote Alistair Rider

Alistair Rider

Samar Halloum

through the eyes of the travellers who undertook to describe it in the works they have left to posterity

this almanac-like publication designed in collaboration with Layan Attari features recipes and colour swatches derived from ingredients dried on the roof of Jameel Arts Centre and Tabbaa’s study of the sunrise and sunset

Libyan in Twilight: The Story of an Arab Jew Tote Alistair RiderThe narrative jumps between the present and past, starting in 2012 where Raphael finds himself in a jail cell in post revolution Libya amidst political chaos. He rewinds 45 years to a time when Libya was his home, just before the Muslim community ousted the Arab Jews. They spoke in a Libyan dialect of Arabic and had been rooted in North Africa since the destruction of the first temple in Jerusalem in 586BC right up until 1967. Softcover 120 pages