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The Return (Hardcover)
by (shelved 118 times as libya)
avg rating 4.16 — 16,422 ratings — published 2016
My Friends (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 95 times as libya)
avg rating 4.28 — 17,424 ratings — published 2024
In the Country of Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as libya)
avg rating 3.77 — 7,882 ratings — published 2006
The Arab of the Future: A Childhood in the Middle East, 1978-1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as libya)
avg rating 4.12 — 22,262 ratings — published 2014
نزيف الحجر (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 30 times as libya)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,659 ratings — published 1992
13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened In Benghazi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as libya)
avg rating 4.31 — 25,982 ratings — published 2014
Gaddafi's Harem: The Story of a Young Woman and the Abuses of Power in Libya (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as libya)
avg rating 3.77 — 3,105 ratings — published 2012
Under the Tripoli Sky (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as libya)
avg rating 3.37 — 208 ratings — published 2011
The Burning Shores: Inside the Battle for the New Libya (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as libya)
avg rating 4.14 — 292 ratings — published 2017
الكتاب الأخضر (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as libya)
avg rating 3.03 — 1,727 ratings — published 1975
Anatomy of a Disappearance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as libya)
avg rating 3.54 — 4,167 ratings — published 2011
The Shadows of Ghadames (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as libya)
avg rating 3.73 — 267 ratings — published 2004
Sandstorm: Libya in the Time of Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as libya)
avg rating 4.05 — 346 ratings — published 2012
Genocide in Libya: Shar, a Hidden Colonial History (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 11 times as libya)
avg rating 4.57 — 21 ratings — published
A Month in Siena (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as libya)
avg rating 4.03 — 3,481 ratings — published 2019
The Map of Salt and Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as libya)
avg rating 3.91 — 21,033 ratings — published 2018
The Lion's Game (John Corey, #2)
by (shelved 10 times as libya)
avg rating 4.23 — 40,666 ratings — published 2000
A History of Modern Libya (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as libya)
avg rating 3.44 — 89 ratings — published 2006
زرايب العبيد (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as libya)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,509 ratings — published 2020
The Dictator's Last Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as libya)
avg rating 3.70 — 1,578 ratings — published 2015
Desert Encounter (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as libya)
avg rating 4.47 — 328 ratings — published 1931
Homeless Rats (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as libya)
avg rating 3.52 — 42 ratings — published 2011
The Night Will Have Its Say (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as libya)
avg rating 3.18 — 51 ratings — published
Maps of the Soul (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as libya)
avg rating 4.04 — 26 ratings — published 2014
Translating Libya: In Search of the Libyan Short Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as libya)
avg rating 4.22 — 18 ratings — published
Dictatorland: The Men Who Stole Africa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as libya)
avg rating 4.41 — 2,763 ratings — published 2018
Illegal: A Graphic Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as libya)
avg rating 4.21 — 10,382 ratings — published 2017
The Confines of the Shadow (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as libya)
avg rating 4.10 — 21 ratings — published 2006
Libya: The Rise and Fall of Qaddafi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as libya)
avg rating 3.82 — 146 ratings — published 2010
Arab Spring, Libyan Winter (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as libya)
avg rating 3.91 — 215 ratings — published 2012
The Withdrawal: Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of U.S. Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as libya)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,073 ratings — published 2022
خبز على طاولة الخال ميلاد (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as libya)
avg rating 3.22 — 3,270 ratings — published 2021
Chewing Gum (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as libya)
avg rating 3.40 — 144 ratings — published 2008
البحث عن المكان الضائع (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as libya)
avg rating 3.74 — 178 ratings — published 2003
Destroying Libya and World Order: The Three-Decade U.S. Campaign to Terminate the Qaddafi Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as libya)
avg rating 4.09 — 22 ratings — published 2013
South from Barbary: Along the Slave Routes of the Libyan Sahara (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as libya)
avg rating 3.84 — 38 ratings — published 2012
The Making of Modern Libya (ebook)
by (shelved 6 times as libya)
avg rating 3.93 — 14 ratings — published 1994
The Exchange (The Firm, #2)
by (shelved 5 times as libya)
avg rating 3.68 — 105,819 ratings — published 2023
المجوس، الجزء الأول (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as libya)
avg rating 3.87 — 487 ratings — published 1990
My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World’s Deadliest Migration Route (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as libya)
avg rating 4.49 — 1,983 ratings — published 2022
North to Paradise (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as libya)
avg rating 4.26 — 13,230 ratings — published 2019
Understanding Libya Since Gaddafi (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as libya)
avg rating 3.73 — 37 ratings — published 2020
The Libyan Revolution and its Aftermath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as libya)
avg rating 4.20 — 20 ratings — published 2014
Slouching Towards Sirte: NATO's War on Libya and Africa (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as libya)
avg rating 4.50 — 70 ratings — published 2012
In Extremis: The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as libya)
avg rating 4.41 — 5,173 ratings — published 2018
L'Arabe du futur 2 : Une jeunesse au Moyen-Orient, 1984-1985 (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as libya)
avg rating 4.30 — 12,240 ratings — published 2015
Children of Allah: Between the Sea and Sahara (hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as libya)
avg rating 4.39 — 38 ratings — published 1965
“There's extreme violence, but there's a will to find who these people really are. And I think that's what's really inspiring about it.”
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“Rolf Ekeus came round to my apartment one day and showed me the name of the Iraqi diplomat who had visited the little West African country of Niger: a statelet famous only for its production of yellowcake uranium. The name was Wissam Zahawi. He was the brother of my louche gay part-Kurdish friend, the by-now late Mazen. He was also, or had been at the time of his trip to Niger, Saddam Hussein's ambassador to the Vatican. I expressed incomprehension. What was an envoy to the Holy See doing in Niger? Obviously he was not taking a vacation. Rolf then explained two things to me. The first was that Wissam Zahawi had, when Rolf was at the United Nations, been one of Saddam Hussein's chief envoys for discussions on nuclear matters (this at a time when the Iraqis had functioning reactors). The second was that, during the period of sanctions that followed the Kuwait war, no Western European country had full diplomatic relations with Baghdad. TheVatican was the sole exception, so it was sent a very senior Iraqi envoy to act as a listening post. And this man, a specialist in nuclear matters, had made a discreet side trip to Niger. This was to suggest exactly what most right-thinking people were convinced was not the case: namely that British intelligence was on to something when it said that Saddam had not ceased seeking nuclear materials in Africa.
I published a few columns on this, drawing at one point an angry email from Ambassador Zahawi that very satisfyingly blustered and bluffed on what he'd really been up to. I also received—this is what sometimes makes journalism worthwhile—a letter from a BBC correspondent named Gordon Correa who had been writing a book about A.Q. Khan. This was the Pakistani proprietor of the nuclear black market that had supplied fissile material to Libya, North Korea, very probably to Syria, and was open for business with any member of the 'rogue states' club. (Saddam's people, we already knew for sure, had been meeting North Korean missile salesmen in Damascus until just before the invasion, when Kim Jong Il's mercenary bargainers took fright and went home.) It turned out, said the highly interested Mr. Correa, that his man Khan had also been in Niger, and at about the same time that Zahawi had. The likelihood of the senior Iraqi diplomat in Europe and the senior Pakistani nuclear black-marketeer both choosing an off-season holiday in chic little uranium-rich Niger… well, you have to admit that it makes an affecting picture. But you must be ready to credit something as ridiculous as that if your touching belief is that Saddam Hussein was already 'contained,' and that Mr. Bush and Mr. Blair were acting on panic reports, fabricated in turn by self-interested provocateurs.”
― Hitch 22: A Memoir
I published a few columns on this, drawing at one point an angry email from Ambassador Zahawi that very satisfyingly blustered and bluffed on what he'd really been up to. I also received—this is what sometimes makes journalism worthwhile—a letter from a BBC correspondent named Gordon Correa who had been writing a book about A.Q. Khan. This was the Pakistani proprietor of the nuclear black market that had supplied fissile material to Libya, North Korea, very probably to Syria, and was open for business with any member of the 'rogue states' club. (Saddam's people, we already knew for sure, had been meeting North Korean missile salesmen in Damascus until just before the invasion, when Kim Jong Il's mercenary bargainers took fright and went home.) It turned out, said the highly interested Mr. Correa, that his man Khan had also been in Niger, and at about the same time that Zahawi had. The likelihood of the senior Iraqi diplomat in Europe and the senior Pakistani nuclear black-marketeer both choosing an off-season holiday in chic little uranium-rich Niger… well, you have to admit that it makes an affecting picture. But you must be ready to credit something as ridiculous as that if your touching belief is that Saddam Hussein was already 'contained,' and that Mr. Bush and Mr. Blair were acting on panic reports, fabricated in turn by self-interested provocateurs.”
― Hitch 22: A Memoir















