Bashir al-Saadawi
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Bashir al-Saadawi 🇱🇾

بشير السعداوي (Known as "Al-Saadawi")
Founder of the National Congress Party, Architect of Libyan National Unity
Born 1884 🇱🇾 Al-Khums, Libya
Passed Away Jan 17, 1957 Beirut, Lebanon
Lifespan 73 years old
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"Libya is one homeland, one people, and one destiny; we will never accept its partition into foreign zones."

Archival Overview

Foremost patriotic statesman who founded the National Congress Party in 1949, championing unitary national sovereignty over federal division to achieve complete Libyan independence in 1951.

Biographical Record

A fighter in the anti-Italian resistance in Tripolitania who was condemned to death in 1923, Bashir al-Saadawi fled into exile to Syria and Saudi Arabia, serving as royal counselor to King Abdulaziz Ibn Saud. In 1948, he returned to Libya to head the National Front for Independence.

He founded the National Congress Party (*Hizb al-Mu'tamar*), uniting trade unionists, youths, and intellectuals across Tripolitania, Cyrenaica, and Fezzan, presenting unified petitions to the UN Commission under Adrian Pelt. His relentless advocacy prevented the implementation of the Bevin-Sforza plan that sought to partition Libya among European powers.

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Final Resting Place

Perpetual Memorial
Sidi Munaider Cemetery (Reinterred 1970)
Tripoli, Libya
GPS: 32.8900, 13.1800
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