Tripoli

And then he got a job in Libya as a teacher.

And we stayed in a small town called Zlatan, about 100 kilometers away from Tripoli.

My elementary school was passed in three different countries, two schools in Rafah, because I was in one school before the war, and then I moved to another school when I was after the war.

Then we moved to Cairo.

And I was at war with her.

I mean, the middle school ended eventually and I moved to high school.

In high school, we moved to Tripoli and the situation was different.

I was more older and I didn't have a lot

Standard tickets are priced at 200 Ghana Cedis while VIP tickets cost 300 Ghana Cedis.

On global update, Algeria national carrier Air Algeria resumed direct flight to Tripoli on Wednesday after a nearly 12-year halt, the internationally recognized government's National Unity Media Office said.

The airline will initially operate two flights a week, a media office said.

Many international airlines suspended flights and from Libya after the 2024 civil war, which spawned rival administrations in the East and West following the NATO-backed uprising and troubled Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.

Some airlines resumed services after a 2020 ceasefire largely halted major fighting.

Efforts to resolve the political crisis have failed, however, while with rival factions occasionally clashing and competing for control of economic resources.

The media office posted photographs of the reopening ceremony at Tripoli's Mitiga Airport and Kapital's Oli Functioning Airport, showing an Air Algeria aircraft.

On Monday, the Transport Ministry said the UN's International Civil Aviation Organization lifted air-pace restrictions imposed in 2015 during the civil war.

And so Alpha is is looks like and visually, if you will, but also in the reporting, like a foreign policy fund, sort of like Iran-Contra, where Kushner is working with the Emiratis on their and the Saudis on their plan to affect change in the Middle East and North Africa to remake the Middle East.

overthrow the government in Tripoli, for instance, in Libya, potentially, you know, bring in mercenaries to solve and fight the war in Yemen against the Houthis.

Right.

These are examples of things that are going on and things that that were they were trying to do.

It's Bui, which is the, you know, Libyan way of saying dad.

But if you go through a machine, it would just have translated that as dad, right? Which is like, why do we have someone that sounds American or possibly even English in the middle of this like book in, you know, in Tripoli? Like, so I, with the author's permission, I've done that and I've gone through the book and reinstated those elements because I think it really sort of elevates the reader experience and is more in tune with what his intention was when he originally wrote the book.

That's such a fascinating example of the subtleties of what you do and the kind of inside knowledge that you have to acquire.

And thank you for giving us that sort of, you know, snapshot of what your job entails.

Howdy! Our guest today is Kevin Bertram, designer, game publisher, raconteur.

We discuss his design work on Shores of Tripoli, Halls of Montezuma, as well as what distinguishes Ford Circles Games, and a bit about the adversity facing game publishers in the modern era.

You know, Kevin, we've never talked about this, but I was kind of curious, which came first for you? Was it a drive to design games or a desire to publish

them? I didn't have a drive to do either, really.

They didn't even write me back.

I emailed Holland Spiel, didn't hear back.

And I did, I did hear back from Compass, but I felt that they would probably not put the care and attention into the shores of Tripoli that I would.

And so having...