Three years on from the revolution that ousted the country's eccentric leader, Colonel Muammar Qaddafi, Libya remains paralysed by factional, regional, tribal and ideological divisions.
And in his exceedingly eccentric way, Colonel Qaddafi may have had a more expansive view of appropriate female behavior than some conservative Libyan families.
But for Libyans, reaching and winning the championship final this year was always going to be about so much more than football.Three years after they rose up against their eccentric ruler, Colonel Muammar Qaddafi, Libyans are disillusioned with the pace of change in a country riven by growing factional and regional tension.
Seen as eccentric and unpredictable, Colonel Qaddafi never got far as a leader in the Arab world.
Merchants in Benghazi's gold market are tentatively opening their shops.Cyrenaica, Libya's eastern slice that was once a breadbasket of the ancient world but has since been ruined by the colonel's eccentric economic theories, is re-establishing its trading links.
Now, Dr. Krekshi's larger challenge is to reverse decades of placing political orthodoxy above academic inquiry, reforming a curriculum that forced students to spend years studying Colonel Qaddafi's eccentric Green Book and a faculty he calls "90 percent contaminated".
Page A10 TRIPOLI UNIVERSITY'S REBIRTH Dr. Feisel Krekshi, the new dean of Tripoli University, faces the challenge of reversing decades of placing political orthodoxy above academic inquiry, reforming a curriculum that forced students to spend years studying Colonel Qaddafi's eccentric Green Book and a faculty he calls 90 percent contaminated.
On everything else he just floated, vague and scummy, along the prevailing tide: the idiot economic orthodoxy called for austerity, so he implemented it; a coalition of liverspotted aristocrats, eccentric press barons, and retired colonels peering through blinds in the Home Counties wanted an EU referendum, so he gave them one.
