Qualla: Senussi Campaign https://qualla.com/senussi-campaign en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 27 Jul 2026 10:40:36 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/s/s/3/b/senussi-campaign-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Senussi Campaign https://qualla.com/senussi-campaign Senussi Campaign: Introduction https://qualla.com/senussi-campaign/ Photo credit Illustrated London News, Public domain. Most of the First World War was fought in trenches that barely moved for years. This part of it ranged over hundreds of kilometers of open Sahara, and it was fought by people the rest of the war scarcely noticed. From late 1915 into 1917, along the vague frontier between Italian Libya and British-held Egypt, a religious order of desert Arabs called the Senussi waged a campaign against two European empires at once. They had been pushed into it. And the way it ended would shape Libya for the next half-century.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/s/3/b/senussi-campaign-wp/ss3b-senussi-campaign-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Senussi Campaign: A Peaceful Order Drawn Into War https://qualla.com/senussi-campaign/ Photo credit Illustrated News, Public domain. The Senussi were not, by origin, a warlike people. Founded in the nineteenth century, the order was a network of Sufi lodges spread across the Sahara, described before 1906 as a relatively peaceful religious community opposed to fanaticism, more concerned with teaching and trade ...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/s/3/b/senussi-campaign-wp/ss3b-senussi-campaign-a-peaceful-order-drawn-into-war.mp3 0:06 2 full Senussi Campaign: The Frontier https://qualla.com/senussi-campaign/ Photo credit Illustrated London News, Public domain. It was hard country to fight over. The western edge of Egypt had never even been formally drawn, the negotiations interrupted by war and never resumed. A thin coastal strip along the Mediterranean could just support grazing and the occasional well, though the wells were far apart...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/s/3/b/senussi-campaign-wp/ss3b-senussi-campaign-the-frontier.mp3 0:06 3 full Senussi Campaign: Cars Against Camels https://qualla.com/senussi-campaign/ Photo credit The Seymour and Muriel Yale Collection of Coins of the Ottoman Empire and Other Middle East States, CC0. When the Senussi crossed into Egypt in November 1915, the British garrison had been stripped thin by Gallipoli and Mesopotamia, and the first months were uncertain. The defenders fell back, regrouped at Mersa Matruh, and fought a series of hard, confused actions in the coastal sc...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/s/3/b/senussi-campaign-wp/ss3b-senussi-campaign-cars-against-camels.mp3 0:06 4 full Senussi Campaign: The Peace, and What Came After https://qualla.com/senussi-campaign/ Photo credit Unknown author, Public domain. By the spring of 1917 it was over. The Senussi had been forced back across the border into Libya, the oases retaken one by one, the desert left to British aircraft and armored cars. The gamble had failed on its own terms: most Egyptians never rose, and the pressure on Suez never ...

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