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  • Shadows of a Leader: Qaddafi's Female Bodyguards (2004)
  • 59 min | Documentary
Shadows of a Leader: Qaddafi's Female Bodyguards (2004)
59 min | Documentary

The documentary investigates the phenomenon of Qaddafi's elite female bodyguard corps and the tensions these women embody: tensions between Islam, modernisation in a nomadic society, a militarist feminism and an urban dictatorship.
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Apr 2004 (United States)
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8 cast members
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Rania Ajami
Self - Narrator Self - Narrator   See fewer
Muammar Gaddafi
Self - Dictator, Libya (archive footage) (as Muammar Gadaffi) Self - Dictator, Libya (archive footage) (as Muammar Gadaffi)   See fewer
Fatima Elalem
Self - Revolutionary Guard Self - Revolutionary Guard   See fewer
Muammer Ben Saed
Self - Bodyguard Self - Bodyguard   See fewer
Fathiya Tabishat
Self - Revolutionary Guard (as Colonel Fathiya Tabishat) Self - Revolutionary Guard (as Colonel Fathiya Tabishat)   See fewer
Hosni Ben Saed
Self - Bodyguard Self - Bodyguard   See fewer
Marlin El-Mahalli
Self - Journalist & Teacher Self - Journalist & Teacher   See fewer
Sabria Harikat
Self - Revolutionary Guard Self - Revolutionary Guard   See fewer
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