An edition of Tears of the desert (2008)

Tears of the desert

a memoir of survival in Darfur

1st Canadian ed.
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An edition of Tears of the desert (2008)

Tears of the desert

a memoir of survival in Darfur

1st Canadian ed.
  • 2 Want to read

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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Language
English
Pages
367

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Cover of: Tears of the desert
Tears of the desert: one woman's true story of surviving the horrors of Darfur
2009, Hodder Paperbacks
in English
Cover of: Tears of the desert
Tears of the desert: a memoir of survival in Darfur
2009, One World Trade Paperbacks
in English - One World Trade Paperbacks ed.
Cover of: Tears of the desert
Tears of the desert: a memoir of survival in Darfur
2008, HarperCollins Publishers
in English - 1st Canadian ed.
Cover of: Tears of the desert
Tears of the desert: one woman's true story of surviving the horrors of Darfur
2008, Hodder & Stoughton
in English

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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.

Edition Notes

Published in
Toronto

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
962.404/3092
Library of Congress
DT159.6.D27B382008

The Physical Object

Pagination
xi, 367 p.
Number of pages
367

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL32146394M
Internet Archive
tearsofdesertmem0000bash
ISBN 10
1554681782, 1554681790
ISBN 13
9781554681785, 9781554681792
OCLC/WorldCat
219937559
Amazon ID (ASIN)

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