Selling sketches and clothes, Libyan women set up businesses against the odds

FILE PHOTO: Libyan architect Seham Saleh makes drawings to sell through the internet at the LEAP women's business incubator launched by Jusoor Center for Studies and Development in Tripoli, Libya June 23, 2019. REUTERS/Yosri al-Jamal

TRIPOLI (Reuters) - When inflation began eating into her state-paid salary Libyan architect and assistant professor Seham Saleh started selling drawings over the internet to help pay the bills.

She joins a growing number of Libyan women launching start-ups in the conservative Arab country, where many still think a woman's place is in the home but where the strains on personal and family income following years' of political chaos have forced women to look for more work.