Ahmad 
On Sunday, the Sports city in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi witnessed the launch of the Benghazi reconstruction ceremony, and this ceremony comes as part of the programs celebrating Benghazi, the capital of culture in the Islamic world for the year 2024.
The ceremony was attended by the Prime Minister-designate of the Libyan House of Representatives, Osama Hammad, a group of ministers, diplomats, and delegations from friendly and brotherly countries.
In his speech during the opening, Hammad congratulated the people of Benghazi and the Libyan people on the occasion of choosing the city as the capital of culture in the Islamic world 2023 – and extending it to 2024 in solidarity with the people of Derna and the Green Mountain, stressing that today’s activities coincide with Benghazi’s celebrations of successive reconstruction achievements.
The celebrations of Benghazi as the capital of culture in the Islamic world shed light on the city’s various cultural and heritage facets, especially with regard to Islamic civilization, its influential histories, and its exploits and arts.
The celebration includes artistic and cultural events, including plays and festivals for Libyan song, muwashahat and religious chanting, film events, book exhibitions, plastic arts, folkloric performances, and intellectual seminars in which representatives of Arab and Islamic countries participate.