Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Unavailable
    Muammar al-Qaddafi's Libya, 2nd Edition
    Unavailable
    Muammar al-Qaddafi's Libya, 2nd Edition
    Unavailable
    Muammar al-Qaddafi's Libya, 2nd Edition
    Ebook125 pages1 hour

    Muammar al-Qaddafi's Libya, 2nd Edition

    By Kimberly L. Sullivan

    ()

    Currently unavailable

    Currently unavailable

    About this ebook

    Muammar al-Qaddafi led a group of young army officers who overthrew the government of King Idris I in 1961. After the officers seized control, Qadaffi emerged as head of the ruling council. Although he doesn’t hold any title in Libya, it is clear that he is the absolute ruler of the country. Qaddafi brought socialism to Libya by taking over and nationalizing all industries, including the profitable oil industry. He reorganized the government in a way that seemed to give more voice to the people, but he and his close advisers made all important decisions. Dissenters were imprisoned or killed. In the name of promoting Arab unity, Qaddafi supported Arab and other terrorists around the globe. He also sent assassins to kill exiled Libyans who spoke out against him. Still, he spoke out strongly against the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the United States. In recent years, Qaddafi has opened Libya to foreign investors and agreed to give up his nuclear program. It is not clear whether he has also reduced his firm control of Libyan citizens. After forty years of rule, Qaddafi is still a puzzle to the outside world.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLerner Publishing
    Release dateAug 1, 2012
    ISBN9781467703574
    Unavailable
    Muammar al-Qaddafi's Libya, 2nd Edition
    Author

    Kimberly L. Sullivan

    Kimberly Sullivan enjoys writing both fiction and nonfiction. Her nonfiction books for young adult readers include Muammar al-Qaddafi's Libya and Slobodan Milosevic's Yugoslavia. She holds a Ph.D. in political science and has been a college instructor for 13 years. Kim is a lifelong Illinois resident and currently resides in the Chicago suburbs with her husband, son, and an assortment of formerly stray cats. For more information about Kim's work, including excerpts and some very bad advice for students and aspiring writers, please visit www.KOsbornSullivan.com.

    Related to Muammar al-Qaddafi's Libya, 2nd Edition

    Related ebooks

    YA Biography & Autobiography For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      From Africa To Alabama: Stories Of Survivors Of The Last Slave Ship

      Mar 7, 2024

      The horrors of the trans-Atlantic slave trade are often expressed in numerical terms whose enormity can be difficult to grasp. Between the 16th and 19th centuries, 12.5 million people in Africa were forced onto slave ships bound for the Americas; 10.

      3 min read

    • Article

      Out Of Africa: David Livingstone’s Servants Preserve His Legacy

      Oct 3, 2019

      Petina Gappah’s novel “Out of Darkness, Shining Light” imagines what the 19th-century explorer’s African servants thought of his quest.

      1 min read

    • Article

      The Quest for a Libertarian Island Paradise

      Jun 16, 2022

      WHEN MICHAEL OLIVER was a teenager in Lithuania, the Nazis shipped him by train to a series of concentration camps in Poland. He was the only member of his Jewish family not murdered during World War II. It does not take an overly capacious imaginati

      5 min read

    • Article

      The Muslims You Cannot See

      Jun 2, 2017

      The Muslims You Cannot See
      8 min read

    • Article

      Between Two Worlds

      Oct 22, 2016

      Between Two Worlds
      2 min read

    • Article

      Anniversaries

      Nov 24, 2022

      An unexpected storm causes chaos for the exhausted crew Christopher Columbus was wretched with exhaustion when, at about 11pm on 25 December 1492, he finally lay down to sleep. This journey had been his first across the Atlantic - he had set sail on

      2 min read

    • Article

      Three Months To Halt War On The Korean Peninsula?, Will The Republican Tax Plan Really Boost The Economy?, World Powers Must Stop Passing The Buck On Syrian Refugees, The West Isn’t The Only Culprit In Libya’s Slave Trade, Don’t Forget Yemen’s Awful War

      Dec 16, 2017

      The Guardian / LondonThree months to halt devastating war on the Korean Peninsula? “The drumbeat for a potentially devastating war on the Korean peninsula ... has grown louder in the wake of North Korea’s latest missile test...,” writes Mark Seddon.

      2 min read

    • Article

      Renaissance Prince

      Apr 29, 2021

      PHYSICIST, PHYSICIAN, LINGUIST, ENGINEER, and — besides much else — life insurance actuary, Thomas Young (1773-1829) has been called “the last man who knew everything”. At the bicentenary of his birth, the Science Museum suggested Young “probably had

      3 min read

    • Article

      Seers And visionaries

      Feb 17, 2023

      Seers And visionaries
      4 min read

    • Article

      From Civil War To Surfing: Five Things To Know About Liberia

      Nov 12, 2023

      The West African nation of Liberia will vote for a new president on Tuesday in a run-off race between President George Weah, an ex-international football star, and veteran politician and technocrat Joseph Boakai. Here are five things to know about th

      2 min read

    • Article

      What California Dreams Are Made Of

      Apr 23, 2020

      What California Dreams Are Made Of
      5 min read

    • Article

      Stranded Content

      Jun 9, 2022

      It is one of life’s exquisite ironies that the story behind a work deemed the first novel in English, a work of the strictest Puritan spiritualism, begins with indecent behaviour on consecrated grounds. We don’t know exactly what Alexander Selkirk —

      3 min read

    • Article

      Man On A Mission

      Jun 18, 2021

      Man On A Mission
      5 min read

    • Article

      Hero Of The Haitian Slave Rebellion

      Jun 17, 2021

      Dr Sudhir Hazareesingh has been shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2021 for his book Black Spartacus: The Epic Life Of Toussaint Louverture Revolutionary hero and military genius Toussaint Louverture led the successful slave revolt in the Fren

      8 min read

    • Article

      The Possibilities of Coexistence: The Millions Interviews Michael David Lukas

      Mar 13, 2018

      Jews have been in the United States for 350 years. Jews were in Cairo for a thousand. Within that kind of time span, you have ups and downs, obviously. But that long history of Jews in the Arab world has been erased in a lot of ways, for political me

      8 min read

    • Article

      Robert C. Koehler: Columbus Day in pretend America

      Oct 15, 2020

      Before the fake holiday known as Columbus Day completely disappears for another year, I want to grab hold of it for a moment and look at what it really has to offer us: a dizzying dose of historical realism. We’re not who we think we are. The social

      4 min read

    • Article

      Robert C. Koehler: Columbus Day in pretend America

      Oct 15, 2020

      Before the fake holiday known as Columbus Day completely disappears for another year, I want to grab hold of it for a moment and look at what it really has to offer us: a dizzying dose of historical realism. We’re not who we think we are. The social

      4 min read

    • Article

      Listening To The World's Displaced

      Jun 18, 2020

      With a record number of people forced from their homes last year, the focus must be on their hopes for peace. Libya is an example where big powers must back local initiatives for national unity.

      2 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Muammar al-Qaddafi's Libya, 2nd Edition

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words