RF
nevertheless argued that the Senussi in general, and Emir Sidi Idris
in particular, were not necessarily hostile to the British: they were merchants; they had found that moving skins and ivory abroad for sale...
Travel
Rosita Forbes
Both of them continued to be great travellers, together or separately. A visit which RF
planned to Yemen (again in the guise of Khadija) in 1922 was supposed to lead on to a crossing of...
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1 September 1969: The aged King Idris of Libya, a paternalistic...
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1 September 1969
The aged King Idris
of Libya, a paternalistic ruler and an ally of the West, was deposed and the army took power in his place.
“2 September 1969. Of kings and colonels in Libya”. Guardian Weekly, 2 Sept. 2011, p. 22.
