For almost three decades, Western audiences have seen Muammar Gaddafi as a provocative, defiant, fiery head of state. He has often been accused of condoning terrorism and financing extremist groups. Major powers have tried to radicate his regime through embargoes and even a bombing operation during which one of Gaddafi's children was killed. In the present texts, aside from the views of a revolutionary and a prophet, we discover Gaddafi as a writer and an essayist.