An edition of Tears of the desert
(2008)
Tears of the desert
a memoir of survival in Darfur
1st Canadian ed.
by Halima Bashir
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Halima Bashir was born in Sudan. She left to study medicine, & returned as her tribe's first qualified doctor. Janjaweed Arab militias began savagely assaulting her people. She treated the traumatised victims. After speaking to a Sudanese newspaper & to the UN charities, the secret police came for her, interrogating & torturing her.
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Genocide, Ethnic relations, History, Physicians, biography, Women physicians, Refugees, africa, Sudan, history, Africa, biography, Physicians, Biography, Refugees, Women refugeesPeople
Halima Bashir (1979-)Places
Sudan, Darfur (Sudan), DarfurTimes
Darfur Conflict, 2003-Showing 4 featured editions. View all 4 editions?
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Tears of the desert: one woman's true story of surviving the horrors of Darfur
2009, Hodder Paperbacks
in English
0340963573 9780340963579
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Tears of the desert: a memoir of survival in Darfur
2009, One World Trade Paperbacks
in English
- One World Trade Paperbacks ed.
0345510461 9780345510464
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Tears of the desert: one woman's true story of surviving the horrors of Darfur
2008, Hodder & Stoughton
in English
0340963565 9780340963562
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Tears of the desert: a memoir of survival in Darfur
2008, HarperCollins Publishers
in English
- 1st Canadian ed.
1554681782 9781554681785
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Table of Contents
Part One. Child of the Desert. The naming
Grandma's trip to the lost valley
Moon-bone madness
Mo, Omer and me
The cutting time
Part Two. School of the Desert. School days
Fight school
Resistance for grandma
The white eyelash attack
Cousins in love
Dream to be
Part Three. Desert of Fire. Medical school
University of Jihad
Rumours of war
Medecine women
Accident and emergency
Mission to Mazkhabad
Rebel doctor
Black dogs abd slaves
They come for me
A long-distance wedding
The devil horsemen
A time of fear
Part Four. Desert of No Return. Escape from Darfur
The hostel of despair
In London, in love
Breaking the silence
Will to live
Epilogue.
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