The Translator A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur

Informationen zum Autor Daoud Hari was born in the Darfur region of Sudan. After escaping an attack on his village, he entered the refugee camps in Chad and began serving as a translator for the BBC, New York Times and other media, and for various NGOs. He now lives in the US, where he is a spokesperson for www.SaveDarfur.org. Klappentext Daoud Hari lost a way of life in Darfur. But amidst the carnage and turmoil! he found a new calling. As a Zaghawa tribesman in the Darfur region of Sudan! Daoud Hari grew up racing camels! attending weddings and playing games. But in 2003! helicopter gunships swooped down on Darfur's villages and shattered that way of life for ever. Zusammenfassung Daoud Hari lost a way of life in Darfur. But amidst the carnage and turmoil, he found a new calling. As a Zaghawa tribesman in the Darfur region of Sudan, Daoud Hari grew up racing camels, attending weddings and playing games. But in 2003, helicopter gunships swooped down on Darfur's villages and shattered that way of life for ever.

Product details

• Authors: Daoud Hari, Hari Daoud
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 05.06.2008
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies
• EAN: 9780141037004
• ISBN: 978-0-14-103700-4
• Pages: 224
• Dimensions (packing): 12.9 x 19.8 x 1.5 cm
• Subjects: Sudan, Afrikanische Geschichte, 2000 bis 2009 n. Chr., Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Survival, First World War, Genozide und ethnische Säuberung, Underground Railroad, Nelson Mandela, Tools of Titans, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Genocide & War Crimes, call the midwife, HISTORY / Africa / North, 21st century history: from c 2000 -, The strange death of Europe, Ready Player One, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Alice Roberts, Astrophysics for People in a hurry, Graham Hancock, c 2000 to c 2010, c 2000 to c 2009, True stories of heroism, endurance & survival, African History, Weapons of Math Destruction, True stories of heroism, endurance and survival, Genocide & ethnic cleansing, Genocide and ethnic cleansing, Egyptian Mythology, when breath becomes air, a very short introduction, thinking fast and slow, the world at war, prisoners of geography, George Monbiot, seven brief lessons on physics, the organised mind, the boy who gave his heart away, lorraine pascale books, Affluence without Abundance