'I Don't Know Where I Will Be The Next Minute — Dead Or Alive': The View From Tripoli

Huda, a 60-year-old high school teacher in Tripoli, has just finished her last day teaching English literature at an international school in the Libyan capital. Speaking by phone from her now-empty classroom, she tells NPR that the school year had to wrap up early because of the intensity of fighting between pro- and anti-government forces.

Exams were interrupted by sounds of shelling and nearby explosions. Some of her students screamed in fear, but many, she says, were not afraid. They are children of war, she explains. They were 8 or 9 years old when Libya's 2011 revolution took place, and they've become desensitized to the bombs.

"Us adults are more afraid," Huda says. Because of safety concerns, she does not want her surname used. "I've been living