Cynthia Lloyd grew up in the UK in rural Cheshire and studied English and French at Bristol University. She spent ten years overseas, teaching English in Brazil and at universities in the Middle East. After being bombed in Libya and invaded in Kuwait, she returned to the UK and worked for the Open University and Birmingham University International Students' Unit. In 2005 she completed a PhD in historical linguistics. She now lives with her husband in Cheltenham.
Three Years in Benghazi: Libya 1982-4 “Societies in which the existence and unity of the family are threatened, in any circumstances, are similar to fields whose plants are in danger of being swept away or threatened by drought or fire, or of withering away.” “All that is beyond the satisfaction of needs…
