Mohamed Fekini and the Fight to Free Libya

by Del Boca, Angelo; Shugaar, Antony

• ISBN13: 9780230108868
• ISBN10: 0230108865
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-12-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This book provides a significant history of Italy's brutal occupation of Libya. Using the lens of the life of the iconic resistance fighter Mohamed Fekini, it tells the story of Libya under Ottoman and Italian rule from the point of view of the colonized. The story begins with the onset of Italian occupation in 1911-12, includes the crucial period of the anti-Italian jihad, from 1921 to 1930, and continues through the postwar creation of a united Libya under King Idris in 1947.

Author Biography

Angelo Del Boca is an Italian author and historian of Italian colonialism. He has written several books about the Italians in North Africa, and his book The Ethiopian War was published by the University of Chicago Press.

Table of Contents

Tripolitania Under Ottoman Rule * The Surprise of Shara Shatt * The Clash with Suleiman El-Baruni * Interval of Peace * The Great Arab Revolt * The Birth of the Jumhuriyah Et-Trabulsiyya * Italy Issues the Statutes * The Death of Hassan* A State within the State* Rodolfo Graziani Versus Mohamed Fekini * To Live and Die in the Desert * Mohamed Fekini’s Last Raid * The Long Road of Exile * Let Us Restore Their Dignity