{"id":52480,"date":"2011-09-16T13:11:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T13:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arefnayed.com\/?p=52480"},"modified":"2021-03-29T19:14:01","modified_gmt":"2021-03-29T19:14:01","slug":"a-man-of-god-and-technology-trying-to-steady-libya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arefnayed.com\/en\/posts\/52480\/","title":{"rendered":"A Man of God and Technology, Trying to Steady Libya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">AREF NAYED was sipping cappuccino in the soaring marble lobby of the Corinthia Hotel near Tripoli\u2019s seafront, quoting Montesquieu on law and Augustine on forgiveness in a conversation that had begun with earthier subjects, like the challenges of restoring Libya\u2019s water supply and counting its dead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">He held forth on how Bedouin poetry shaped a moderate Islam in Libya, and he was just starting to explain the relevance to Libyan politics of the mathematical theory of complexity \u2014 it had to do with something called \u201c<a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" title=\"About flocking behavior (PDF file)\" href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/gqbzs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">flocking phenomena<\/a>\u201d \u2014 when his cellphone rang.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/\">www.nytimes.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:16px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-left is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-white-color has-text-color has-background no-border-radius\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/09\/17\/world\/africa\/aref-nayed-man-of-god-and-technology-tries-to-steady-libya.html?_r=2\" style=\"background-color:#0061af\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read Article<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AREF NAYED was sipping cappuccino in the soaring marble lobby of the Corinthia Hotel near Tripoli\u2019s seafront, quoting Montesquieu on law and Augustine on forgiveness in a conversation that had begun with earthier subjects, like the challenges of restoring Libya\u2019s water supply and counting its dead. 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