When Mussolini wants to solidify Italys North African Colonies, he faces massive opposition by one man- Omar Mukhtar, the Lion of the Desert.

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Sources:

Online:
https://www.politico.com/blogs/ben-smith/2010/08/mussolini-update-028929
Muslim Fascist Party and Youth Wing
http://countrystudies.us/libya/21.htm (Library of Congress)
https://www.nam.ac.uk/explore/senussi-revolt
https://awayfromthewesternfront.org/campaigns/africa/the-senussi-campaign/
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2017/01/18/libyans-havent-forgotten-history/
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/17353164

Journal Articles:
Arielli, Nir. Italian Involvement in the Arab Revolt in Palestine, 1936-1939. British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, vol. 35, no. 2, 2008, pp. 187204. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/20455584.

Bussotti, L. (2016) A History of Italian Citizenship Laws during the Era of the Monarchy (1861-1946). Advances in Historical Studies, 5, 143-167. doi: 10.4236/ahs.2016.54014.

Cooke, James J. Destino Affricano De Popolo Italiano: Franco-Italian Controversy Over Tunisia, 1936-1940. Proceedings of the Meeting of the French Colonial Historical Society, 13/14, 1990, pp. 203216. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/42952205.

Collins, Carole. Imperialism and Revolution in Libya. MERIP Reports, no. 27, 1974, pp. 322. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/3011335.

KOPANSKI, ATAULLAH BOGDAN. ISLAM IN ITALY AND IN ITS LIBYAN COLONY (720-1992). Islamic Studies, vol. 32, no. 2, 1993, pp. 191204. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/20840121.

Pankhurst, Richard. Education in Ethiopia during the Italian Fascist Occupation (1936-1941). The International Journal of African Historical Studies, vol. 5, no. 3, 1972, pp. 361396. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/217091.

Pretelli, Matteo. Education in the Italian colonies during the interwar period. Modern Italy, Vol. 16, No. 3, August 2011, 275293

Books:
Mark I. Choate: Emigrant nation: the making of Italy abroad, Harvard University Press, 2008, ISBN 0-674-02784-1, page 175.

Peter Bandella The Eternal City: Roman Images in the Modern World, Chapter 7 - The University of North Carolina Press, 1987, ISBN 0-8078-6511-7

Ahmad Hassanein Bey The Lost Oases (read a Swedish translation by Ulla Ericson), American University of Cairo, reprinted 2006 (original 1925), ISBN 978-91-87771-41-5

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