Translator : A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur

Name: Translator : A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur
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ISBN: 9781400067442

ISBN-10: 1400067448

ISBN-13: 9781400067442

Edition: 2008

Authors: Daoud Hari, Dennis Michael Burke, Megan M. McKenna

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"I am the translator who has taken journalists into dangerous Darfur. It is my intention now to take you there in this book, if you have the courage to come with me." The young life of Daoud Hari-his friends call him David-has been one of bravery and mesmerizing adventure. He is a living witness to the brutal genocide under way in Darfur. "The Translator" is a suspenseful, harrowing, and deeply moving memoir of how one person has made a difference in the world-an on-the-ground account of one of the biggest stories of our time. Using his high school knowledge of languages as his weapon-while others around him were taking up arms-Daoud Hari has helped inform the world about Darfur. Hari, a…

Book details

Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 3/18/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Size: 6.25" wide x 8.75" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

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 major news organizations includingThe New York Times,NBC, and the BBC, as well as the United Nations and other aid groups. He now lives in the United States and was part of SaveDarfur.org's Voices from Darfur tour. From the Hardcover edition.

Introduction	p. ix
A Call from the Road	p. 3
We Are Here	p. 11
The Dead Nile	p. 21
A Bad Time to Go Home	p. 28
My Sister's Village	p. 38
The End of the World	p. 43
Homecoming	p. 48
The Seven of Us	p. 62
The Translator	p. 68
Sticks for Shade	p. 71
Two and a Half Million Stories	p. 77
Connections	p. 86
Nicholas Kristof and Ann Curry Reporting	p. 92
Once More Home	p. 99
Waking Up in N'Djamena	p. 106
A Strange Forest	p. 111
The Sixth Trip	p. 114
What Can Change in Twenty-four Hours?	p. 120
Some Boys Up Ahead with a Kalashnikov	p. 125
Our Bad Situation Gets a Little Worse	p. 131
Blindfolds, Please	p. 136
We Came to Rescue You Guys	p. 142
We Can't Think of Anything to Say	p. 146
The Rules of Hospitality	p. 151
Open House at the Torture Center	p. 161
The Hawalya	p. 168
My One Percent Chance	p. 176
Acknowledgments	p. 183
A Darfur Primer	p. 185
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights	p. 195
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