Qualla: Misrata War Museum https://qualla.com/misrata-war-museum en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:29 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Misrata War Museum https://qualla.com/misrata-war-museum Misrata War Museum: Introduction https://qualla.com/misrata-war-museum/ On Tripoli Street in Misrata, the buildings still wear their scars. Pockmarked facades, collapsed roofs, craters where shops once stood. It was here, along this commercial artery, that some of the fiercest urban fighting of Libya's 2011 civil war took place. And it was here, in the aftermath, that the people of Misrata chose to build something no one had attempted before in Libya: a museum dedicated to the war they had just survived.

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]]> Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/m/f/8/misrata-war-museum-wp/smf8-misrata-war-museum-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Misrata War Museum: The City That Would Not Fall https://qualla.com/misrata-war-museum/ Misrata endured one of the longest and most punishing sieges of the 2011 Libyan Civil War. Forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi besieged the city for months, pounding it with artillery, rockets, and mortar fire while snipers took up positions in residential buildings. Tripoli Street b...

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]]> Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/m/f/8/misrata-war-museum-wp/smf8-misrata-war-museum-trophies-from-the-dictators-ruins.mp3 0:06 3 full Misrata War Museum: Weapons and the Weight of War https://qualla.com/misrata-war-museum/ Beyond the political trophies, the museum holds the raw material of combat. AK-47 ammunition, rockets, mortars, projectiles, a half-ton bomb, and Russian-made tanks fill the exhibition space alongside the homemade armor that Misrata's fighters wore into battle. The proximity of l...

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]]> Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/m/f/8/misrata-war-museum-wp/smf8-misrata-war-museum-weapons-and-the-weight-of-war.mp3 0:06 4 full Misrata War Museum: A City's Grief on Display https://qualla.com/misrata-war-museum/ The museum was dedicated to the memory of Murad Ali Hasan Yaber, an Al Jazeera cameraman killed in Benghazi while covering the uprising. His name above the entrance signals something about the museum's purpose: this is not simply a trophy hall. It is a memorial to the cost of doc...

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