Six Months In Sudan
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Six Months In Sudan
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Author : James Maskalyk
language : en
Publisher: Canongate Books
Release Date : 2009-05-21
Six Months In Sudan written by James Maskalyk and has been published by Canongate Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-05-21 with Travel categories.
An outstanding account of saving lives in one of the most dangerous and desperate places on Earth. James Maskalyk set out for the contested border town of Abyei, Sudan in 2007 as Médicins Sans Frontières' newest medical doctor in the field. Equipped with his experience as an emergency physician in a Western hospital and his desire to understand the hardest parts of the world, Maskalyk's days were spent treating malnourished children, fending off a measles epidemic and staying out of the soldiers' way. Worn raw in the struggle to meet overwhelming needs with inadequate resource, he returned hom six months later more affected by the experience, the people and the place than he had anticipated. Six Months in Sudan began as a blog that he wrote from his hut in Sudan in an attempt to bring his family and friends closer to his hot, hot days. It is a story about humans: the people of Abyei who suffer its hardship because it is their home, and the doctors, nurses and countless volunteers who leave their homes with the tools to make another's easier to endure. With great hope and insight, Maskalyk illuminates a distant place - its heat, its people, its poverty, its war - to inspire possibilities for action.
Life On The Ground Floor
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Author : Dr. James Maskalyk
language : en
Publisher: Doubleday Canada
Release Date : 2017-04-11
Life On The Ground Floor written by Dr. James Maskalyk and has been published by Doubleday Canada this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-11 with Medical categories.
*Canada Reads 2019 Longlist *Winner of the 2017 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction Do no harm is our most important rule, but we break it all the time trying to do good. In this deeply personal book, winner of the 2017 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction, humanitarian doctor and activist James Maskalyk reflects upon his extensive experience in emergency medicine. Splitting his time between a trauma centre in Toronto's inner city and the largest teaching hospital in Addis Ababa, he discovers that though the cultures, resources and medical challenges of the hospitals may differ, they are linked indelibly by the ground floor: the location of their emergency rooms. Here, on the ground floor, is where Maskalyk confronts his fears and doubts about medicine, and witnesses our mourning and laughter, tragedies and hopes, the frailty of being and the resilience of the human spirit. Yet, he is swept most intimately into this story of "human aliveness" not as a physician, but as a grandson carrying for his grandfather, now in his nineties. Masterfully written and artfully structured, Life on the Ground Floor is more than just an emergency doctor's memoir—it's a meditation on health and sickness, on when to hang on tight, and when to let go.
Six Months In Sudan
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Author : Dr. James Maskalyk
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2009-05-26
Six Months In Sudan written by Dr. James Maskalyk and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-05-26 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
An inspiring story of one doctor’s struggle in a war-torn village in the heart of Sudan In 2007, James Maskalyk, newly recruited by Doctors Without Borders, set out for the contested border town of Abyei, Sudan. An emergency physician drawn to the ravaged parts of the world, Maskalyk spent six months treating malnourished children, coping with a measles epidemic, watching for war, and struggling to meet overwhelming needs with few resources. Six Months in Sudan began as a blog that Maskalyk wrote from his hut in Sudan in an attempt to bring his family and friends closer to his experiences on the medical front line of one of the poorest and most fragile places on earth. It is the story of the doctors, nurses, and countless volunteers who leave their homes behind to ease the suffering of others, and it is the story of the people of Abyei, who endure its hardship because it is the only home they have. A memoir of volunteerism that recalls Three Cups of Tea, Six Months in Sudan is written with humanity, conviction, great hope, and piercing insight. It introduces us to a world beyond our own imagining and demonstrates how we all can make a difference.
Revolutionary Sudan
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Author : Khalid Mustafa Medani
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-12-17
Revolutionary Sudan written by Khalid Mustafa Medani and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-17 with categories.
In April 2019, following over six months of persistent youth-led protests, Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir was successfully deposed, bringing an end to three decades of authoritarian rule in Sudan.In this illuminating volume, Khalid Mustafa Medani examines the political and socioeconomic factors that led to the revolution and diagnoses the challenges that remain for the consolidation of democracy. He explores the role of political economy in the popular uprising and discusses some oft-neglected factors in the analysis of popular protests in Africa and the Middle East. These include the relationship between geopolitics and grassroots activism in democratisation; the role of social media and diasporic activism in helping to shape and sustain local networks of resistance; and new dynamics of mobilisation, which have seen the emergence of youth and women in particular as central actors in the protests.Based on many years of research, Revolutionary Sudan shines light on the ways in which Sudan's revolution holds important lessons for popular uprisings in the region and beyond.
Why Haven T You Left
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Author : Marc Nikkel
language : en
Publisher: Church Publishing, Inc.
Release Date : 2006
Why Haven T You Left written by Marc Nikkel and has been published by Church Publishing, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
As a missionary in the Sudan, amid unrest and war following Sudanese independence, Nikkel wrote these quasi-public letters -- missionary epistles --to his friends and supporters back home in the USA. These letters present a vivid picture of daily struggle in an impoverished, war-torn, but lavishly beautiful country.
What Is The What
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Author : Dave Eggers
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2011-10-27
What Is The What written by Dave Eggers and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-27 with Fiction categories.
What is the What is Dave Eggers's astonishing novel about one of the world's most brutal civil wars Valentino Achak Deng is just a boy when conflict separates him from his family and forces him to leave his small Sudanese village, joining thousands of other orphans on their long, long walk to Ethiopia, where they find safety - for a time. Along the way Valentino encounters enemy soldiers, liberation rebels and deadly militias, hyenas and lions, disease and starvation. But there are experiences ahead that will test his spirit in even greater ways than these . . . Truly epic in scope, and told with expansive humanity, deep compassion and unexpected humour, What is the What is an eye-opening account of life amid the madness of war and an unforgettable tale of tragedy and triumph. 'If there was ever any doubt that Dave Eggers is one of our most important storytellers, What Is the What should put it to rest... [A] strange, beautiful and unforgettable work' San Francisco Chronicle 'A remarkable book: harrowing, witty, wretched, delightful; and always compelling, always surprising' London Review of Books All of the author's proceeds from this book will go to the Valentino Achak Deng Foundation. Read more at: www.valentinoachakdeng.com.
Heart Of Darfur
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Author : Lisa French Blaker
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Heart Of Darfur written by Lisa French Blaker and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The first book to go behind the headlines, this is a heart-breakingly honest as well as inspiring account of a nurse's struggle to help in the middle of the humanitarian disaster that is Darfur.
An Imperfect Offering
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Author : James Orbinski
language : en
Publisher: Doubleday Canada
Release Date : 2009-02-24
An Imperfect Offering written by James Orbinski and has been published by Doubleday Canada this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-02-24 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
National Bestseller “As Albert Camus wrote, the doctor’s role is as a witness–to witness authentically the reality of humanity, and to speak out against the horrors of political inaction. . . . The only crime equaling inhumanity is the crime of indifference, silence, and forgetting.” —James Orbinski In 1988, James Orbinski, then a medical student in his twenties, embarked on a year-long research trip to Rwanda, a trip that would change who he would be as a doctor and as a man. Investigating the conditions of pediatric AIDS in Rwanda, James confronted widespread pain and suffering, much of it preventable, much of it occasioned by political and economic corruption. Fuelled by the injustice of what he had seen in Rwanda, Orbinski helped establish the Canadian chapter of Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders/MSF). As a member of MSF he travelled to Peru during a cholera epidemic, to Somalia during the famine and civil war, and to Jalalabad, Afghanistan. In April 1994, James answered a call from the MSF Amsterdam office. Rwandan government soldiers and armed militias of extremist Hutus had begun systematically to murder Tutsis. While other foreigners were evacuated from Rwanda, Orbinski agreed to serve as Chef de Mission for MSF in Kigali. As Rwanda descended into a hell of civil war and genocide, he and his team worked tirelessly, tending to thousands upon thousands of casualties. In fourteen weeks 800,000 men, women and children were exterminated. Half a million people were injured, and millions were displaced. The Rwandan genocide was Orbinski’s undoing. Confronted by indescribable cruelty, he struggled to regain his footing as a doctor, a humanitarian and a man. In the end he chose not to retreat from the world, but resumed his work with MSF, and was the organization’s president when it was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1999. An Imperfect Offering is a deeply personal, deeply political book. With unstinting candor, Orbinski explores the nature of humanitarian action in the twenty-first century, and asserts the fundamental imperative of seeing as human those whose political systems have most brutally failed. He insists that in responding to the suffering of others, we must never lose sight of the dignity of those being helped or deny them the right to act as agents in their own lives. He takes readers on a journey to some of the darkest places of our history but finds there unimaginable acts of courage and empathy. Here he is doctor as witness, recording voices that must be heard around the world; calling on others to meet their responsibility. “Ummera, ummera–sha” is a Rwandan saying that loosely translated means ‘Courage, courage, my friend–find your courage and let it live.’ It was said to me by a patient at our hospital in Kigali. She was slightly older than middle aged and had been attacked with machetes, her entire body rationally and systematically mutilated. Her face had been so carefully disfigured that a pattern was obvious in the slashes. I could do little more for her at that moment than stop the bleeding with a few sutures. We were completely overwhelmed. She knew and I knew that there were so many others. She said to me in the clearest voice I have ever heard, “Allez, allez. Ummera, ummera-sha”–‘Go, go. Courage, courage, my friend–find your courage and let it live.’ —From An Imperfect Offering
Six Months In Abyei
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Author : Timothy Scott
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-03-05
Six Months In Abyei written by Timothy Scott and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-05 with categories.
Tim Scott arrived to Sudan in the leadup to the historic 2011 South Sudan Referendum - a choice given to ethnic Southerners of if to split Africa's largest country - with confidence in his abilities and eager to contribute to the understanding of the circumstances of this historic divorce. But the realities in the field were dramatically different from what he expected. It was confusing, opaque and contradictory - the most difficult thing he had ever attempted - and he reveled in it.Recruited by President Jimmy Carter's organization The Carter Center, Tim Scott was stationed in the contested border town of Abyei. An experienced election observer drawn to challenging himself, Tim spent six months documenting the process of several referenda established at the signing of the peace agreement that ended Sudan's bloody 25-year civil war. A chaotic story of one observer's struggles in a war-torn village, Crisis in Sudan began as a journal written from his tent in Sudan in an attempt to make sense of his experiences on the front line of a potential return to fighting in one of the poorest places on earth.Crisis in Sudan gives a glimpse into the mysterious daily life of an election observer, an occupation few will experience. The reader is guided along in daily blocks through the sleuthing and piecing together of information in order to sort out the inconsistent information presented by opposing and potentially deadly sides in a conflict that predates the creation of the nation, extending back before British colonial rule. In the process, Tim and his partner must overcome many obstacles and confront national security, disease and boredom, a common problem for expats working in the developing world. Crisis in Sudan is written with honesty, conviction, humor, and self-exploration. It introduces us to a world most of us will only read about in the news. This is a story of a search for identity of not just the people who call Sudan home, but ofFull color with 95 photographs
The Boy Who Wouldn T Die
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Author : David Nyuol Vincent
language : en
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Release Date : 2012-07-01
The Boy Who Wouldn T Die written by David Nyuol Vincent and has been published by Allen & Unwin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The inspiring true story of David Nyuol Vincent, a Sudanese refugee who survived famine, wars and 17 years in refugee camps to build a new life in Australia. David Nyuol Vincent was a little boy when he fled southern Sudan with his father, as war raged in their country. He left behind his distraught mother and sisters, his village and his childhood. For months David and his father walked across southern Sudan, barefoot, desperately searching for safety, food and water. They survived the perilous Sahara Desert crossing into Ethiopia only to be separated. David was taken in and trained as a child soldier, surviving the next 17 years of his life alone in refugee camps. Life was a relentless struggle against starvation, air bombings and people determined to kill him and his people. In 2004 David was offered a humanitarian visa as one of the Lost Boys of Sudan and was resettled to Australia. Traumatised by what he had seen and endured, he went about the slow and painful process of making a new life for himself-a life away from hunger, away from guns, away from death. A life where David is determined to improve the plight of his people both here in Australia and back in South Sudan. Told with frankness and humour, this is the powerful account of a young man's resilience. The story of a boy who refused to die.