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who had come to oversee the administration of
Benghazi city. Following the war, he declined a position at Oxford as he was the first Libyan to be recruited by the British to assist in the political administration of Cyrenaica. Following the independence of Libya in 1951, Wanis served as a provincial minister in Cyrenaica, successively of health, justice and transportation, eventually becoming chairman of Cyrenaica's Executive Council. In 1962, he was appointed Libyan foreign minister for a two-year term and, again, in 1967, was appointed foreign minister.
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Abd al-Kadir, Ali al-Ruqii and
Shennib garnered literary acclaim as poets of the period "who rejected the classical forms of Arabic versification and showed an interest in social problems, particularly the life of the common people". Common themes of prose during this period were the struggle for independence, social equality and condemned prejudice. The poems 'Libya', 'After Dusk' and 'Al Ashiqah' are key works of modern Arabian literature.
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Al-Qaddafi's younger son, Mohsen Al-Qaddafi fared less well. In 1981, at age 13, he became involved in a plot against
Qaddafi. The plot was discovered and its leaders executed. Others were sentenced to life imprisonment. Mohsen was imprisoned at the age of fourteen and passed the next seven years in
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In 1977, Al-Qaddafi's eldest son Majid, fled to United States following his involvement in the April 1976 demonstrations against the
Gaddafi regime at Benghazi's Gar Younis university which saw hundreds of student demonstrators killed or imprisoned. Identified as a key protester, Majid Al A-Qaddafi
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Following the coup, Al-Qaddafi was imprisoned by the
Gaddafi regime. He was released four months later only to be rearrested in 1970 on charges of permitting King Idris to leave Libya and was imprisoned for a further two years. His time in prison affected his health considerably. In 1974 Al-Qaddafi
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Born in 1922 in
Benghazi, Al-Qaddafi came to the attention of an Italian lawyer during the Italian colonial period who trained him for a career in law. Following the commencement of World War II and the British occupation in 1942, and the young Al-Qaaddafi caught the attention of the Allied Forced
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It was, however, for his poetic works that Ahmed Fouad
Shennib was most famed. Prolific in the later fifties and sixties, Ahmed Fouad Shennib's poetry gained pan-Arab attention for addressing the subjects of Libyan nationalism and cultural identity in the post-independence era. Alongside Ali Sidqi
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entering as a cadet in 1955. Upon his return to Libya, he entered the Royal Army in which he served for fifteen years until the Coup of 1969. As
Commander of the Royal Army he was arrested in the first days after Qaddafi seizing power and imprisoned for four and a half years.
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Under the protection of King
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Ahmed Fouad
Shennib served as cultural attache to UNESCO until 1959. then as cultural attache in Washington DC and Paris, returning to Libya in 1963 to serve as Minister of Education and Culture.
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as ambassador to Jordan. The surprising appointment was "no gesture of reconciliation with the old regime". As Abdul-Aziz had been at the
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jail, as Qaddafi's youngest political prisoner. Upon his release, he joined his elder brother in the United States.
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Muhammad Sadiq Afifi “Poety i poeziia Livii” In Sovremennaia arabskaia literatura Moscow, Muhammad Sadiq Afifi 1960
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found safe passage to the US and eventually settling in Portland, Oregon where he kept a low profile. After the
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