Safia Ltaif is a Libyan woman who left her country in 2015 to do economic and cultural studies. She has worked in audiovisual and visual arts. Her work focuses on the artistic expression of the Arab world and the search for identity in the cultural industry. She is currently working on a project about Libyan women’s music. She has already worked on an artistic productions archive project called “Creative Arabs”.

In Libya, there are few archives on the Italian occupation period, and only few artistic productions and oral tradition documented. The project consists of producing podcasts and visual documentation based on the memory of the elderly to better understand the Libyan identity and its relation to the history of the Italian occupation and the fight against this occupation as well as the life during the first years of independence. The preparatory phase consists of interviews and written archival research as well as preserved traces from this period such as tattoos, scars, objects and photos.