omg.......yesterday.......khaltee misheeya was on the Libyan channel. Hilarious wallahi. The episode where she's going to school with all the little kids. A must-see.

hey i found a site that archives the libyan channel ramadan shows....the quality isnt all that, but some of the 'wassa3 balek' episodes are definatley worth it. I dont want to post the site on the journal for the benefit of some of bros and sisters, but if you want a link message me here or aghliw at yahoo com. salamu alaikum...

yep its me... and your sister wrote me a awsome email... its awsome how people are connected with the internet while being so far apart

hey anees...sorry i didnt reply sooner....but i think my sis saf touched base with you!!! Long lost Italian crew ;) subhanAllah, what a SMALL world!!! I was gonna email you and ask you if you were the anees from back in the day, but naseeb doesnt let me email people im not connected to.

salamulakum Misrateeyah... its pretty cool that your sister was also born in perugia... my whole family was born in perugia (brothers and sisters) and when i read your comment... i was so excited... what part of perugia was your sister born in? how long did your family live there? why did you guys move?... in respect to the city center (quatro di Novermbre)... i actually when back to my old neighborhood and almost everyone still lived exactly where they live when we left (18 years ago) it was really awsome... WAS ANYONE ELSE BORN IN PERUGIA?....

Do you know if they air the show in the US and/or if they have a website? Salamulakum Anees

libyanprincess...wassi3 balek is done for this year...they only have it for the first half of ramadan ( i think they have budget issues or something), but it always only plays for 15 days. Now they have this other show called 'Alkhal Ismail' which is pretty funny, they also have this shergawi show that I dont really get, but the actors are esthetically pleasing. My all time favourite is wassi3 balek, it really shows the libyan-ess of people.

OMG MIS...my long lost Italian Sis. Gimme 5. I'm the only one in my family who was born outside of Libya. The rest of them were born in Benghazi. My little sister in a town by ras lanuf.......BINJAWAD...anyone heard of it? Very messed up little town wallahi. ps-While we are on the subject of where we were born etc. I have menitoned before about how baba was born in a cave and i argued with some people about it......*cheesy smile*.......so it turns out he wasn't born in a cave.........but my aunt before him was born there........now do the wave.....YAAAAAAAAAY

I watched wasa3 ballik a couple of times. but hey, they used to bring this other series called "hiya hiki" awil ayaam ramadan, it used to come right after wasa3 balik.. then they just stopped it. 3alash?? 3alash???? does anyone know??

This is so not sexypants...

f_m...saf, me, my younger brother, and my eldest sister were all born in Italy aswell...me, saf, and my bro were born in Parma (a beautiful city in the north) and my sister was born in Perugia. It is quite a conversation piece, especially with canadians that think i'm fresh of the boat from Libya (most dont even know where that is located), when I tell them I was born in Italy and can speak Italian it adds a whole new dimension to their narrow minded mould that they had moulded me in. Northern Italy is gorgeous...its not very diverse however, so expect a few stares if you're a hijabi...but the scenery and atmosphere are gorgeous.

lool I got it ya shergaweeya. But I think our sense of humor is instilled in all of us. Even the people with the most damm thigeel may be masterminds when it comes to pulling pranks and things like that. I remember my uncle telling us about how he pulled a prank on a masree worker in Libya that was helping build or renovate his house. He said that they pranked him and said that for him to be able to help out with the work he needed to get a liscense to use a 'birwee6a' like those little three wheeled carts they use to carry a bunch of stuff. He said for a week they trained him, made him do a whole bunch of things with the birwee6a and after a week of hard training they gave him a fake ID with his name and told him he was ready to start working on the house. HILARIOUS. They said the masree was so happy that he was showing off with his liscence to the other workers. funny wallahi. I have no isloob in telling stories, so forigve me if you no one gets it. ANYYYYYYYYYWAYYYYYYYY....

arablondoner.....interesting wallahi about the honeymoon destinations. Italy popped in my mind too........after all......I was born in Milano YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY....and yes I love saying that to rub it in people's faces.....yeah baby.......lol But I don't know......we'll see......Italy is beautiful I'm sure, I don't remember much since we left when I was 6 months.....but mama said it was beautiful. I'm also thinking Greece. There's just so much to see in Greece.

about libyans having a good sense of humor theres a masree joke about how it's just a recent thing thats developed. and basically thers a masree guy who was telling husni mubarak "did you you know libyans are laughing now and making jokes" husni mubarak then said "asluhum ga3oo welad elkalb"

did y'all get it?!

your lucky you don't have arabic tv Sftripoli, the whole month of ramathan is dominated by my mom usually watching her shows, and my dad al-jazeera........ As to Libyan sense of humour......yes we can be quite evil, but it is funny your story lool , but I cannot help feeling sorry for the poor guy, but I gotta admit we have a better sense of humour then the rest of the arabic world..............As to the Honeymoon discussion...sorry to lazy to pop to the other journal....its who u are with that counts.........although turkey with its Sophie Catherdra/Mosque is quite amazing, The Bosphorous river with all the beautiful holiday homes are pretty impressive. The Turkish Bath experience when done well is great........me personally have only few requirments a 4 star or 5 star hotel, and somewhere amazing like South America, Alaska seems so pure and clean, Northern Italy near Milano is inpressive, a friend just came from honeymoon holiday there said it was amazing. The town of Bergamo outside Milano with its hilltop village that closes at sunset or so, and its beautiful local church and amazing locally produced meal would hit the spot.

Alright... I don't have Arabic satellite at home, so I guess my comment isn't really topical--but I'm still going to make it.

Does anyone else think that we Libyans have a particularly goofy streak that makes us LOVE pranks, or is it just me? No, seriously?

I see it in my family and I saw it in co-workers when I worked in Libya...and I know I do it all the time. I heard this story about a prank from my former co-workers that cracked me up (and, yes, I'm easily amused in some ways):

The new employee was introduced to his co-workers with whom he shared an office. He was the fourth addition to this particular department. The others of course greeted him graciously when introduced by the supervisor, and then returned to work. When one office mate left, the other two quickly warned the new employee of the one that left, saying he was just a little strange and to not worry too much about him.

Later, as he was leaving for a break, one co-worker said good bye and softly mentioned something about 'khud balek.' And then the other left, slamming the door shut behind him.

Of course, the new guy looks up at the only other person left in the office. As he looks over in the man's directions, he's met with a dead solid stare, eye to eye. So he looks away--he goes back to doing his work. Then he gets curious and looks up again only to find the man STILL staring at him. No flinch, no nothing--just staring. Goes back to work, looks around, looks up at the co-worker... STILL STARING!

At this point, the new guy's kind of freaked out. He wants to leave, doesn't know how, is scrambling a little. And still the man is staring at him with a completely blank expression on his face.

Eventually, the poor guy ran out of the office and ran into his missing office mates who pretended to have no idea of what just went down...untill they could no longer hold their laughter in!

I obviously did NOT participate in this particular stunt, but I did initiate and participate in many others... I know they run deep in my family. Anyone else got similar experiences?

i love wassa3 balek..i wanna nominate it for an emmy...it seriously shows the lighter side of libyan people. I watch it everyday, mutaz...that episode was funny, but I loved the episode a couple of days ago with the guy that tells the taxi full of people that he lost a snake in the taxi...

Sadow is hilarious ya Saffulia. The other day I was washing the dishes after iftar and I started cracking up when they punk'd that khaleejee actor when he was at the airport. THE GUY WAS PISSED. So HILARIOUS.................

arnoba u don't wanna miss it! Mind you some episodes are funnier than others...but trust me the look/actions of the people on the show is worth watching!

Fatima, that show Sadow is funny!

lol. My dad watches the Libyan Channel 24/7. I'll ask him about ti. But I think my family is more into that other khaleejee show, the candid camera one and the stunts they pull on actors. Its called 'Sadow'...or somethin' like that. Man this year I'm not into Arabian shows.....baba is hogging the tv like never before...grrr.

LOL ..u know what since last year ..every day i say i'm gonna open the Tv and watch libya..and i don't ...even this ramadan ...GOD i don't know what is wrong with me ..and u know every one is talking about it at uni and out side side uni and i'm like ..el atrish fel zafa ...i know 0 about it ..make du3a for me to see it ;)