An Anatomy of a Revolution in the Arab World

Maadafi's education hangs by a precious thread. Gadaffy idolizes nassa, reveres nassa's book and can recite whole speeches from memory. At school, his friends carry a stool around with them so that gadaffy can hop on to it and proselytize at will. The suez crisis is a humiliation for the old colonial masters in post war politics. He must keep his head down and finish his schooling. There has been a great deal of mythologizin of gadafis early life - not least by gatafi himself. After his infractions Maadafi was like an idealized romantic picture of what beterant