Tears of the Desert
A Memoir of Survival in Darfur
A Zaghawa doctor's account of her childhood in Darfur and of what she witnessed as the war reached it.
Halima Bashir grew up in a Zaghawa village in Darfur and trained as a doctor. After treating survivors of an attack on a school she was detained and assaulted, and eventually fled to Britain. Written with Damien Lewis, her memoir sets an account of a childhood among her own people against what the war did to it.
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Mia Farrow
Interview · September 2010
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