Halima Bashir: "Tears of the Desert" (One World/Ballantine Books)

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Halima Bashir: "Tears of the Desert" (One World/Ballantine Books)

The memoir of a black African woman chronicling her childhood in the Zaghawa tribe, overcoming racism to become her village's first formal doctor, the systematic sexual violence used against women and children in Darfur, and fleeing her...

The memoir of a black African woman chronicling her childhood in the Zaghawa tribe, overcoming racism to become her village's first formal doctor, the systematic sexual violence used against women and children in Darfur, and fleeing her homeland for England.

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Halima Bashir

is a physician from the Zaghawa tribe in Dafur. She fled Sudan for England after Janjaweed Arab militias attacked her village and killed several members of her family.

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