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Qaddafi's Female Bodyguards | Official Trailer

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Uploaded by on Jun 15, 2011

Documentary, 2004
A film by Rania Ajami
A Cipher Production
International Sales: First Hand Films


This documentary investigates the phenomenon of Qaddafi's elite female bodyguard corps and the tensions these women embody: tensions between Islam, modernization in a nomadic society, militarist feminism and an urban dictatorship. What sort of life do these women lead, what is their political position, and how has it evolved?

The female guards in Libya are unique as modern Islamic women that challenge Western stereotypes of the repressed Arab female. Using original and archival footage, and being the first to be allowed access to sites and persons in Libya, this two-year effort goes beyond existing representations of the Muslim woman by elucidating and criticizing a complicated ideal of a modern day Amazon warrior.

Montreal World Film Festival, Avignon/New York, Strasbourg, Mid-East Film Festival, Raindance - London, Fort Lauderdale Int'l Film Festival Student Comp. (Best Doc)


http://www.firsthandfilms.com/index.php?film=1000176
http://www.raniaajami.com/
http://www.facebook.com/femalebodyguards

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  • A women that can Handel a AK47 and make a sandwich is a keeper..

  • @fraizer57 Hahaha what ever im sure you didnt live in libya, watch your rebels turn that country into a shithole.

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  • dumb cunts

  • Female bodyguards? No wonder he got killed :p

  • ههههههههههههههه معمر مش دم ولحم ههههههههههههه شكله مشبعها قلوه القحبه

  • "Bullshit mr Han man! you come right out of a comic book" Enter the Dragon.

  • fuck gadaffi infidel killer death to all killers arabs or other nations

  • ghadaffi a true negro. dumb but arogant to an extreme.

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