Topic summary
The Green Book (Gaddafi)
- Libyan Arab Republic
- Federation of Arab Republics
- Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
- 1970 expulsion of Italians from Libya
- 1973 oil crisis
- Cultural Revolution
- Weapons of mass destruction
- West Berlin discotheque bombing
- Lockerbie bombing
- UTA Flight 772
- Support for rebel and paramilitary groups
- International trips
The Green Book (Arabic: الكتاب الأخضرal-Kitāb al-Aḫḍar) is a short book setting out the political philosophy of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. The book was first published in 1975. It is said to have been inspired in part by The Little Red Book (Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung). Both were widely distributed both inside and outside Libya, and "written in a simple, understandable style with many memorable slogans".
An English translation was issued by the People's Establishment for Publication, Distribution, and Advertising, an organ of the Libyan People's Committee, and a bilingual English-Arabic edition was issued in London by Martin, Brian & O'Keeffe in 1976.
During the First Libyan Civil War in 2011, during which Gaddafi himself was killed, copies of the book were burned by anti-Gaddafi demonstrators, and monuments to The Green Book demolished.