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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 6 books in this booklist
£12.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781786072405 | ISBN 10: 1786072408
Fully updated: the new edition of this compelling history begins in ancient times, takes us through the Qaddafi era, the Arab Spring and features a new chapter on post-Qaddafi Libya. Since Qaddafi's ousting in 2011, Libya has been beset by i ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780241966280 | ISBN 10: 0241966280
The Return is at once a universal and an intensely personal tale. It is an exquisite meditation on how history and politics can bear down on an individual life. And yet Hisham Matar's memoir isn't just about the burden of the past, but the consolatio ... more
View book details£14.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780993272905 | ISBN 10: 0993272908
Ghaddafi's Libya was home to a huge number of refugees. People who had escaped war, terror, repression, starvation and disease in their homelands flocked to the state to set up home (as Ghaddafi had invited them to do) or to use Libya as a stopping p ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781611855678 | ISBN 10: 1611855675
Soraya was just fifteen when she was given the honor of presenting a bouquet of flowers to Colonel Gaddafi, “the Guide,” on his visit to her school. She carried out her task with grace, but the next day three women from the “Department of Protocol” c ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780571288069 | ISBN 10: 0571288065
Sandstorm is the best kind of reportage: humane, historically-informed and full of details that only a writer close to the action could have noticed. The overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi has been one of the twenty-first century's defining moments: the Ar ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780857389947 | ISBN 10: 0857389947
Johnny West has lived in this area for the past decade and speaks fluent Arabic, and so has the skills and ability to talk to everyone from security guards to revolutionaries, from families of protestors, some of whom have been killed, to oil workers ... more
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