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.

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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.

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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