The overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi was a defining moment of the early twenty-first century. Lindsey Hilsum International Editor for Channel 4 News was an eyewitness to the revolution. In Sandstorm" she traces the history of Gaddafis strange regime from its beginnings
- when he had looks charisma & popular appeal & posed as a kind of socialist revolutionary
- to the massacre at Abu Salim prison & the paranoid corrupt final state. This is the Libyan revolution as it was made & lived; a narrative of how the people overcame fear & disillusionment to find the strength to rebel against years of terror & tragedy."