International School Tripoli (''IST'') is a GEMS Education international school in Saraj, western

Tripoli, Libya Tripoli (; ar, طرابلس الغرب, translit= Ṭarābulus al-Gharb , translation=Western Tripoli) is the capital and largest city of Libya, with a population of about 1.1 million people in 2019. It is located in the northwest of Libya o ...

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(). International School Tripoli. 28 April 2008.geel family brothers ,Mohammed and Al Basheer Ageel Retrieved on 15 September 2015. "The International School Tripoli, a GEMS school is a co-educational school based in Saraj, on the western outskirts of Tripoli." franchized by the A It uses the

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for Nursery through Year 13. England

History

The school opened in September 2005, with the second phase of the school opened in September of the following year. The senior school was scheduled to open in September 2007. It became an all-through school in September 2008. Initially the students were of 20 different nationalities. The school closed temporarily in February 2011 due to the

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. By March it had no definite restart date. IST students moved to other GEMS schools in the United Kingdom, Dubai, Egypt, and India. The Japanese Supplemental School in Tripoli (トリポリ補習授業校 ''Toripori Hoshū Jugyō Kō''), a weekend Japanese school, held classes at IST.アフリカの補習授業校一覧（平成22年4月15日現在）
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. February 4, 2015. Retrieved on December 20, 2017. "トリポリ Japanese Supplemental School in Tripoli International School of Tripoli 内 Saraj, Janzour Road, Shaabait Al-Jfara, Tripoli, Libya"

References

External links

* International schools in Tripoli GEMS schools 2005 establishments in Libya Educational institutions established in 2005 {{Libya-school-stub