Reza Deghati & Virginie Collombier

For the sixth episode of 101 Visages, Professor Virginie Collombier takes part in Reza Deghati’s podcast to reflect on Libya under Gaddafi’s regime and explore the reasons behind its fall.

For over forty years, Muammar Gaddafi left a profound mark on Libya through authoritarian rule, sweeping economic reforms, and ambitious Pan-African aspirations. After seizing power in 1969, he established a unique political system that blended state control with the ideology laid out in his Green Book.

In this episode, Reza — one of the few journalists to have met Gaddafi in person — recounts this rare encounter at the heart of an opaque regime. Professor Virginie Collombier, PhD in Political Science and expert on the Arab world and the Middle East, delves into the mechanisms of power that sustained Gaddafi’s regime for decades, and the reasons behind its sudden collapse in 2011.

The podcast is available in French.

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