Benghazi soccer exemplifies the battle between Arab autocrats and their detractors
By JAMES M. DORSEY
AL ARABIYA
A pile of rubble in the rebel-controlled city of Benghazi symbolizes Libyan leader Col. Muammar Qaddafi’s long-standing tense relations with the city. It also stands as a memorial to the role of soccer as a platform of dissent against autocratic rule in Libya and elsewhere in the Middle East and North Africa.
The rubble is wha…
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