Book review: From Jerusalem to a Kingdom by the Sea. By Adel Dajani
By Michel Cousins. Tunis, 11 March 2011: Back in 2011, during the Libyan revolution that saw the Qaddafi regime swept into the history books, posters of the former King Idris became a common sight on street walls in Benghazi and other places in the liberated parts of the country. They were also held high by young revolutionaries who were not even born when the king died in exile in Egypt in 1983. These images symbolised a lost past, obliterated by 42 years of eccentric yet ruthless dictatorship. Many Libyans still look back at the period between independence at the end of 1951 and Qaddafi’s...
Source: libyaherald.com