Gaddafi’s Harem: The Story of a Young Woman and the Abuses of Power in Libya

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Soraya used to be just fifteen, a schoolgirl in the coastal town of Sirte, when she used to be given the honor of presenting a bouquet of flowers to Colonel Gaddafi, “the Guide,” on a talk over with he used to be making to her school the following week. This one meeting—a presentation of flowers, a pat on the head from Gaddafi—changed Soraya’s life without end. Soon afterwards, she used to be summoned to Bab al-Azizia, Gaddafi’s palatial compound near Tripoli, where she joined plenty of young women who were violently abused, raped and degraded by Gaddafi. Heartwrenchingly tragic but in the end redemptive, Soraya’s story is the first one of the that are just now starting to be heard. But sex and rape remain the highest taboo in Libya, and women like Soraya (whose identity is secure by a pseudonym here) risk being disowned or even killed by their dishonored members of the family.

In Gaddafi’s Harem, an instant bestseller on publication in France, where it has already sold more than 100,000 copies in hardcover, Le Monde special correspondent Annick Cojean gives a voice to Soraya’s story, and supplements her investigation into Gaddafi’s abuses of power through interviews with people who knew Soraya, in addition to with other women who were abused by Gaddafi.

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