Picture preview: The Gaddafi archives - Libya before the Arab Spring
VIEW GALLERY
Related articles
An exhibition of photographs, documents and artefacts from the Human Rights Watch archive paints a portrait of Libya in the four decades prior to the Arab Spring.
Last year's demonstration brought about massive change in a region which had been subject for 42 years to the regime of Colonel Gaddaf, the military leader whose dramatic death at the hands of revolutionaries in his hometown of Sirte was reported last October.
The historical exhibition includes objects and images representing the reign of King Idris, from whom Gaddafi seized power via a military coup in 1969. Also on display will be pictures and documents seized from Gaddafi's residences and state intelligence ministries by Human Rights Watch emergencies director Peter Bouckaert and photojournalists.
The display examines the tension between the public and private faces of the Gaddafi regime as well as the wider implications of his early popularity and latterday reputation.
Click here or on "View Gallery" for a picture
The Gaddafi archives - Libya before the Arab Spring from 21 to 29 June, Slade Research Centre, part of the London Festival of Photography, www.lfph.org
Life & Style blogs
Your chance to live in Winnie the Pooh’s home
Plus London's buy-to-let hotspots and a new property portal
How can the mortgage market recovery be helped?
Guest post by Richard Sexton, business development director of e.surv chartered surveyors
Travel Shop
- 1 What, let gays get married? We must be bonkers
- 2 Rocky Horror star Tim Curry 'suffers major stroke'
- 3 Exclusive: How MI5 blackmails British Muslims
- 4 EDL marches on Newcastle as attacks on Muslims increase tenfold in the wake of Woolwich machete attack which killed Drummer Lee Rigby
- 5 Farewell, Shameless. Your heirs have work to do
Get your summer started with British Military Fitness
BMF is the UK’s biggest and best loved outdoor fitness classes
Visit York
Find out what The Independent's resident travel expert has to say about one of the most beautiful small cities in the world
Making reading fun for kids
Nook is donating eReaders to volunteers at high-need schools and participating in exclusive events throughout the campaign.
Introducing the 'Get Reading' campaign
Get the latest on The Evening Standard's campaign to get London's children reading.
Enter the latest Independent competitions
Win anything from gadgets to five-star holidays on our competitions and offers page.
Business videos from commercial thought leaders
Watch the best in the business world give their insights into the world of business.
Johnny Marr talks relationships and reunions
In pictures: After the flood
Death becomes her: A very modern mortician
School of chop: Learning the art of butchery
The man who's eaten everywhere
A Berliner in 1963 – but did John F Kennedy once admire Adolf Hitler?







Comments