Mancunian Libyans

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Manchester Libyans ‘caught between cultures’

A year after Salman Abedi killed 22 concert-goers the English city is still reeling and the shocked Libyan community remains divided by events back home.
Attacks against Muslims rose by more than 500 percent in Greater Manchester in the month after the arena attack, with 224 reports of anti-Muslim hate crimes compared to 37 in the same period in 2016.

By Olivia Cuthbert · 22 May 2018