In a substitute for modern medicine, a doctor in Libya is treating his patients by stinging them with bees.Workers are carefully plucking honey bees out of a busy hive placing them in a plastic bag and handing them over to Mohammed al-Zawawi, an apitherapy practitioner in the northern city of Misrata.Zawawi believes live bee acupuncture therapy can support the treatment of a variety of diseases, as well as relieve pain.One of the patients is Ismail Issi he is ill with leukemia, his father says the bee's stings are helping. "My son has a tumor. It was leukemia but afterwards it spread to his bones. We came to visit this doctor who uses bees and thank God, there has been some improvement. His right eye had become swollen, but has since shown improvement, thank God. We hope that he gets well soon (the child) with the help of this doctor."In a typical session, Zawawi uses an average of six bees to sting different parts of his patients' bodies, depending on their ailment
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When Sherif Dhaimish was a young boy growing up in Burnley, north-west England, he had little clue that his father was an internationally celebrated Libyan political satirist who was also wanted by the Qaddafi regime.
“I was aware that my dad was a cartoonist and that he was Libyan but I didn’t know what that really meant,” Sherif tells
The National of Hasan “AlSatoor” Dhaimish, the prolific cartoonist who died in the UK in 2016.
Controversial, funny, brutally honest and often offensive, AlSatoor began publishing his cartoons in 1980 and gave a unique view of Libyan politics over the decades.