Special Episode: "My Father and Qaddafi"

When Jihan Kikhia was six, her father went to Cairo for a human rights conference. He never came back. Jihan and her mother sit down with Nil Köksal in the "As It Happens" studio for a conversation about her new documentary: "My Father and Qaddafi." It follows her search for answers about how her father became an official in Muammar Qaddafi's government, then a leader of the democratic opposition movement and, ultimately, a target.

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Special Episode: "My Father and Qaddafi" is an episode from As It Happens from CBC Radio by CBC.

This episode is 00:28:24 long.

This episode was published on May 3, 2026.

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