The role of the geographical dimensions of the desert population in Libya in building political, economic and social relations with neighbouring geographical countries

Abstract

The cities of the southern Libyan Desert (Ghat, Murzuq, Kufra) play an important role in building political, economic and social relations with their geographical neighbourhood. The importance of  the study is to highlight the role of geographical dimensions that affected the societal patterns of life of the desert’s people, which strengthened the linking spatial relations and produced their geographical identity as desert cities. These cities witnessed the development and diversification of their cultural and commercial activities with their geographical neighbourhood, which affected their morphological structure and their relations fused within the ethnographic composition of their components. The study reviews the historical spatial role of its civilizational centres and its modern geopolitical transformations that have formed its morphological structure. From these variables, these cities suffered the scourge of conflicts and wars and became militias of terrorism after the intervention of the dominant international policy system.