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See Thomas Hüsken and Olin Roenpage, Jenseits von Traditionalismus und Stagnation. Analyse einer beduinischen Ökonomie in der Westlichen Wüste Ägyptens (Münster: LIT-Verlag, 1998).
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Only when I crossed the land border to Egypt was a phone call to him unavoidable, in order to convince the Libyan customs officers that I was not an Israeli spy.
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In Tobruk, the Alliance won four out of five seats. See the homepage of the High National Elections Commission of Libya: High National Elections Commission, last modified 2017, http://www.hnec.ly/en/.
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Hüsken, T. (2019). Introduction. In: Tribal Politics in the Borderland of Egypt and Libya. Palgrave Series in African Borderlands Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92342-0_1
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