Muammar el-Qaddafi
News about Muammar el-Qaddafi (1942-2011), including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
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News about Muammar el-Qaddafi (1942-2011), including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
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Alex Rowell draws the wrong conclusion about the Israel-Hamas conflict from his work on Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser (“When Israel’s Great Nemesis…
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We Are Your Soldiers, a meticulous study by journalist Alex Rowell, dismantles the Egyptian leader’s image as an anti-colonial hero