My classmate Hamim is currently teaching at a University in Tripoli, Libya. He was instrumental in facilitating my tour to the country; a tour down the memory lane. A tour to Kufra, an oasis town in the formidable desert of Sahara. I took an AFRIQIYAH flight which was Libyan Airlines previously on a February night. The direct flight from Dhaka to Tripoli took almost 13 hours to reach. Tripoli airport is now a modern one. Though I am not in a position to compare precisely how it was back then in the nineties when I last visited the country. It took another two hours flight to reach Benghazi, the western port city and the previous capital of the country. Now we have to take a bus to the desert city of Kufra. There is a second World War era airbase in Kufra and a weekly flight is available. But we took a Bus rather waiting for the flight. I still can remember, the last time, when I left Kufra. My dad was a government employee there like many other Ba...
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