Gaddafi is a Screenwriter

Also in the world of screenwriting news, Muammar al-Gaddafi, the dictator of Libya, the man who once fashioned himself as “the Mao Zedong of the Middle East” is now a screenwriter:

“A series of impressionistic sketches he has written evoking his country as it was on the eve of invasion by Italy in September 1911 – placid, rustic, traditional – and then as it roused itself to fight to expel the foreigners, is to become the basis for a film costing at least $40m (£19.1m) which begins shooting in Libya next year. Aimed principally at a non-Arab audience, and entitled Dhulm – Years of Torment, it will tell the story of Libya's traumatic experience at the hands of Europe's Johnny-come-lately imperialists.”