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Seif el Islam el Gadaffi

Date of Birth: 25 June 1972


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Playing dominoes

Some projects are sponsored by Seif el Islam el Gadaffi and his sister Aisha Gadaffi's El Watassimu charity...


    Vol 4 (AAC) No 12 |
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Mustafa Abdel Jalil

His record as a judge willing to rule against the government brought him to the attention of Gadaffi and his son Saif el Islam...


Castles made of sand

China also produced a muted response to the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant for Gadaffi his son Seif el Islam el Gadaffi and intelligence chief Abdullah el Senussi on charges of crimes against humanity...


Oil, money and infighting

There have been rumours that an increase in corrupt practices has been encouraged by speculation about the advent of a liberalising and reforming regime as promoted by the Great Leader’s son Seif el Islam el Gadaffi with a consequent need among those who can demand payoffs to maximise returns while they can...

There is only one figure potentially capable of bridging the gap between the unaccountable and enigmatic leader and the executive: Seif el Islam Moammar’s most influential son and his eldest child by his second wife...

Professor Youssef Sawani Executive Director of Seif el Islam's main vehicle for public intervention the Gadaffi International Charity and Development Foundation says Libya 2025 has been 'sitting on a shelf in the National Planning Council for the past two years'...

Kagigi is believed to be close to Seif el Islam...


Gadaffi's Jacob and Esau

The reformer is Seif el Islam el Gadaffi the only one of Colonel Gadaffi's children to have a publicly thought out political idea of what Libya could become...

Seif el Islam's chief family rival is Lieutenant Colonel Mutassim Billah el Gadaffi who has in the past been considered a favourite of conservatives the security establishment and the Revolutionary Committees...


Paternal censorship

Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi has ordered the release of 20 journalists employed by his son Seif el Islam el Gadaffi’s publishing company Al Ghad Media Services who were arrested at the beginning of November on the orders of Prime Minister El Baghdadi el Mahmoudi...

Seif el Islam (AC Vol 50 No 19) brought Doghah back into the fold from London where he had been editing an opposition website Libya al Youm...


A new diplomatic deal after four decades in power

At home the dominant figure in Libya's economic renaissance has been Seif el Islam el Gadaffi the Leader's second son and the eldest from his second marriage...

While many of the emerging entrepreneurial elite privately regret that Seif el Islam and his siblings have such a hold over business they simultaneously praise the role he plays in guaranteeing the new openness in which commerce can thrive...

Seif el Islam has also encouraged many opposition figures in exile - including Islamists - to return home but such initiatives may have unpredictable results...


Who's Who

Seif el Islam el Gadaffi: The Leader's eldest son from his second marriage to Safiya Farkash el Barassi Seif el Islam (Sword of Islam) has become the standard bearer of reform styling himself the spokesman for Libyan youth...

He was moved to his current position in early 2008 at the conclusion of a lengthy conflict with Seif el Islam...

El Baghdadi Ali el Mahmoudi: The Secretary of the General People's Committee is a conservative who has resisted the reforms championed by Seif el Islam and his liberal protégé Shukri Ghanem...


Whiskey doubles all round

Led by veteran intelligence chief Musa Kusa Revolutionary Committees leader Ahmed Ibrahim and Gadaffi's cousins in the Gadaffadam clan the old guard are resilient even if they are regularly outflanked by Gadaffi's reformist son Mohamed Seif el Islam...

Seif el Islam remains the beacon of reform much favoured by local liberals and Western governments to take over from his father...

Meanwhile some other siblings behave badly notably ‘football star' El Saadi el Gadaffi who remains in Italy having fought with Seif el Islam and others and Hannibal el Gadaffi who left France in haste following a police incident and then triggered a diplomatic spat with Switzerland (ambassadors were recalled) when Swiss police accused Gadaffi Junior and his wife of beating up Moroccan domestic servants...


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