Women at Arms explores Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s controversial political ideology regarding women and their role in society and the military. Written by Maria Graeff-Wassink and translated from the original French, the book examines Gaddafi’s claims of supporting women’s liberation through the creation of female military units, often presented as symbols of national pride and revolu…
This book provides unexpected enlightenment on Ghadafi and Libyan society. Libya, going through total change, forms part of the debates in the world of today, particularly those in the Mediterranean world. With the abolition of the patriarchate, the move from tradition to modernity, the emergence of new social models, the conflicts of roles between the sexes, the society shaped by Ghadafi throu…
The Arab Spring took all of us by surprise. The questions we all have are how can such leaderless revolts, so different from others in the past, have arisen, why there, and why now. Johnny West is the perfect guide on this quest. Returning to countries in which he had lived years before, he travels by bus and communal taxi through the back streets and small towns and sits in houses and cafés, …