Tripoli residents say their brioche-like pastries show they are sophisticated, but Easterners prefer savoury bean stew sandwiches: discuss
A Libyan protester holds a croissant at a demonstration in Martyrs Square in central Tripoli, Libya. Picture: REUTERS/AHMED JADALLAH
What you have for breakfast has come to symbolise the divisions in Libya where regions, tribes, armed groups and towns with different traditions have been vying for power since Muammar Gaddafi was toppled in 2011. And the breakfast choice has become part of the language of the conflict and such an inflammatory subject that several cafés in Tripoli would not allow Reuters to discuss it with clients.briocheThe cosmopolitan crowd looks down on the bean dish calledfavoured by easterners. It is sometimes served with egg and is similar to breakfast dishes in other Arab countries.
At an anti-Haftar rally last month in Tripoli, several protesters waved croissants in the air as they chanted. One protestor, university lecturer Abdulmalik Essofrani, says the baryoush showed that locals were “sophisticated, café-goers ... strong and united in their resolve to fight and drive back the attacking force”.
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