Libya on the north coast of Africa has over 90 percent of its land area covered by the Sahara Desert. Today it is a socialist state and is mainly inhabited by Arab Muslims. The territory was once dominated by the Berbers a non-Arab people who were at one time mostly Christians. The Berbers successfully withstood numerous invasions before finally being overrun by Arabs in the seventh century. By two or three centuries after the Arab invasions they had all converted to the Islamic faith at least in name...