Tobruk - Notable People

Notable People

Professor Omar El Barasi (b. 1951), who once managed the Libyan branch of AGIP company, was born in Tobruk and gained his doctorate in Petroleum engineering from Waseda University, Japan..

Eman al-Obeidi, a Libyan woman who was abused by the Gaddafi government during the Libyan civil war, is from Tobruk.

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