Abubaker Saad Collection
Scope and Contents
The collection includes the contents of 6 three ring binders which contained the handwritten texts of Dr. Saad's lectures. Materials have been foldered but notes indicate their original folder designation. None of the materials are dated, but lectures are titled.
Dates
- Creation: 1996-2020
Creator
- Saad, Abubaker M., 1944-2020 (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Open to researchers without restriction.
Conditions Governing Use
Permission to for commercial use must be granted in writing from the WCSU Archives.
Biographical / Historical
Abubaker Saad was born in Libya and as a young man followed Moammar Gadhafi who rose to power in Libya in a bloodless coup in 1969. He worked with Gadhafi as a diplomat and and interpreter. At one point in Gadhafi's service, Saad was translating Gadhafi's words into Italian for a dignitary, and endurred his wrath because he had not translated a "cuss word" into the communication. By 1976, Saad decided that he was finished hoping that Gadhafi would be a positive force for Libya and participated in an aborted coup attempt. Afterwards, Saad fled Libya to the U.S., and enrolled at Portland State University in Oregon, receiving a master's degree and then a PhD from University of Washington in history. His dissertation (part of the Haas Library's collection) is on the History of Iraq in the years just preceding the Shah.
Dr. Saad joined the history faculty at WCSU in 1996 and became an integral voice in the department.
Dr. Saad passed away in 2020.
Extent
1 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Dr. Saad's handwritten lecture texts, mostly regarding the history of Africa.
Arrangement
Arranged into two series. Lectures and published materials.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Recovered from Dr. Saad's office in Warner Hall.
Genre / Form
Topical
- Title
- Guide to the Abubaker Saad Collection
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Western Connecticut State University Archives and Special Collections Repository
Haas Library
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Danbury 06810 USA US
203.837.8992
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