Very glad this story is out in the wider world. In Libya Derna is known as a town of poets and one of them - Mustafa Al-Trabelsi - warned of its terrible vulnerability to floods in a poem & cultural event days before the disaster. He died in the deluge. Tweet added by Mary Fitzgerald @MaryFitzger

Mary Fitzgerald

9 months

Very glad this story is out in the wider world. In Libya Derna is known as a town of poets and one of them - Mustafa Al-Trabelsi - warned of its terrible vulnerability to floods in a poem & cultural event days before the disaster. He died in the deluge.

‘An alarm bell’: Libyan poet warned of flood risk in Derna before dying in storms

Mustafa al-Trabelsi attended a meeting about state of the dams days before Storm Daniel hit city

www.theguardian.com

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Mary Fitzgerald

@MaryFitzger

9 months

Mustafa’s poem (translated here by another Libyan poet Khaled Mattawa). Libyans have been sharing the devastatingly prescient lines widely this week. RIP Mustafa.

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ahmedalkhemisy

@ahmedalkhemis

9 months

@MaryFitzger Libyans cover the sky: floods create stifling living crises

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