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Escape from Benghazi (Paperback)
Diary of an Impostor
Imprint: Vallentine Mitchell
Pages: 220
ISBN: 9781803710204
Published: 7th September 2022
Script Academic & Professional
Pages: 220
ISBN: 9781803710204
Published: 7th September 2022
Script Academic & Professional
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The last time Elia Meghnagi saw his childhood home in Benghazi, he was only seventeen years old. A member of the endangered and fast-shrinking millennia-old Jewish community of Libya, in 1958 Elia was forced to flee, finding refuge in Cambridge as a foreign student. It would be years before he saw his parents and siblings again.
Always one to rise to a challenge, Elia built a new life for himself in England, finding friends, community, lasting love, and a career in telecomms engineering that would take him across the globe to such far-flung places as South Korea and Mexico, until—missing too much of life with his growing family back home—he swapped his high-flying career for one, no less challenging, in the kosher food business.
In this fascinating memoir, Elia looks back on his action-packed life as a square peg in a round hole. Full of nostalgia for his native land and pride in his Sephardi roots, he carries us to the sun-drenched streets of Benghazi and introduces us to its vibrant culture and history, before sharing with us the ups and downs of life as a foreign student and refugee and, eventually, a citizen, in England.
Clear-sighted, compassionate, and often humorous, Elia introduces us to a wide array of the fascinating characters he has met, and the challenging situations he has faced. Perhaps most profoundly, in a narrative suffused with wonder and optimism, Elia shares his experience of fitting smoothly into other cultures while never compromising on his own religious principles or practice.
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