Libyan professor also mends cars and sells dates to make ends meet
WHEN he is not teaching Arabic at Misrata University, professor Omar Mesbah al-Maghreby manages a car repair workshop in the garage of his home in northern Libya and spends his afternoons selling dates at a food market. After nine years of civil war, ordinary Libyans are learning to cope with fuel and electricity shortages and a funding crunch that means salaries are delayed by weeks or more. The country is rich in oil, but exports have been blocked for months by the fighting. "My daily life is basically a series of hardships," Maghreby, 48, told Reuters. "You're forced to seek…