Tears of the desert
Subtitle: one woman's true story of surviving the horrors of Darfur
By: Halima Bashir with Damien Lewis
Contributors: Lewis, Damien
Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 367
ISBN-13: 9780340963579; 9780340925089
Subjects: Genocide; History; Ethnic relations; Physicians; Biography; Women physicians; Refugees; Women refugees; Bürgerkrieg; Ärztin
Description: 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.
Notes: Originally published: London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2008.