Two Middle East nations share a city named Tripoli. They share little else, apart from a Phoenician heritage and mutually near-unintelligible dialects of Arabic. One of their starkest contrasts concerns freedom of religion. Libya sentenced six Christians to death earlier this month for converting from Islam. Lebanon, despite its sectarianism enshrined in politics, allows free movement between religions. Libya's Tripoli was commemorated in the official hymn of the US Marines in homage to American intervention on the shores of North Africa.

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