Benghazi (بنغازي) appears in Season 1 as the revolution's birthplace, the site of personal formation, and a city guests were eventually forced to leave.
Osama Alfitory (EP 10) was in Benghazi when the 2011 revolution began. His brother volunteered at a field clinic near the courthouse — the epicentre of protests — and connected Osama with Robert Worth, a New York Times journalist. This accidental meeting launched Alfitory's career as a fixer. The courthouse became a symbol: the place where Libyans first spoke freely and the world first listened.
Emad Badi (EP 4) — his father was Palestinian but born in Benghazi. The city is his family's anchor, even as he analyses its politics from London.
Alfitory's post-revolution documentary followed three retired military men defusing World War II-era landmines in residential Benghazi. Mines were embedded in streets, shops, walls. One of the men had lost both legs to a mine. One died during filming.
See: The Landmine Clearers of Benghazi
EP 4, EP 10