Hikâyat madinât: Trabulus ladaa al-rahalât al-arab wa al'ajânib. [i.e. A city story: Tripoli through the eyes of Arab and foreign travelers].

Milano - Italy: Al-Dar al-Arabiyya li'l-Kitab, 1930. Hardcover. Very Good. Original blue cloth. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In Arabic. [6], 362 p., many b/w photographic plates and map. Khalifa Mohammed Tillisi was a well-known Libyan historian, translator, and linguist. Tillisi was born in Tripoli, Italian Tripolitania (present-day Libya), on 9 May 1930, where he first became a teacher then entered politics. In 1952 he worked in the Libyan Parliament where he became its Secretary General in 1962. He reached the peak of his political career when he became a minister for information in the cabinets of Mahmud al-Muntasir and Hussein Maziq from 1964 to 1967, Libya's Ambassador to Morocco in 1967 - 1969. After the political change in Libya in 1969, he had been trialed by the Libyan People's Court, and sentenced to four years in prison. The sentence was suspended and was forced into early retirement at the age of 39. In 1974 he founded a Libyan - Tunisian publishing company ( Arabic book house). He was the first president of the Libyan Literature and Writers association in 1977 and was appointed the Secretary General of the Arabic Writers Association in 1978 and in 1981 he became the Secretary General of the Arabic Publishers Association. His past is well remembered among the Libyan people for his renowned contributions to literature and his relaxed kind-hearted nature. Only one copy in Department of Culture and Tourism Library Management Department - Dar Al Kutub in OCLC: 1158714466.