Muammar Gaddafi
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Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi was a Libyan military officer, revolutionary, politician, and political theorist who ruled Libya from 1969 until his overthrow by Libyan rebel forces in 2011 dur
Gaddafi at the African Union summit in 2009
Gaddafi at an Arab summit in Libya in 1969, shortly after the September Revolution that toppled King Idris I. Gaddafi sits in military uniform in the middle, surrounded by Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser (left) and Syrian President Nureddin al-Atassi (right).
In 1971, Egypt's Anwar Sadat, Libya's Gaddafi and Syria's Hafez al-Assad signed an agreement to form a federal Union of Arab Republics. The agreement never materialized into a federal union between the three Arab states.
Gaddafi addresses students, 1970
Safia Farkash
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Safia Farkash is a Libyan businesswoman. As the widow of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, she is the former First Lady of Libya and Representative of Sirte, and the mother of seven of Gaddafi's e
Muammar Gaddafi
…al-Nuri, in 1969. They had one son, Muhammad Gaddafi (born 1970); their relationship was strained, and they divorced in 1970. Gaddafi's second wife was Safia Farkash, née el-Brasai, a former nurse from the Obeidat tribe, born in Bayda. They met in 1969, after his ascension to power, when he was hospitalized with…
Farkash in 1970