"It is not an easy road - but hope is the oxygen of my life.” These insightful words of Meron Semedar, a refugee from Eritrea, reflect the feelings of the eleven men and women featured in this book. These refugees share their extraordinary experiences of fleeing oppression, violence and war in search of a better life in the United States.
"It is not an easy road - but hope is the oxygen of my life.” These insightful words of Meron Semedar, a refugee from Eritrea, reflect the feelings of the eleven men and women featured in this book. These refugees share their extraordinary experiences of fleeing oppression, violence and war in search of a better life in the United States.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
LEE T. BYCEL is a humanitarian activist, Rabbi, teacher and author, who serves as the Sinton Visiting Professor of Holocaust, Ethics and Refugee Studies at the University of San Francisco. He has visited refugee camps in Darfur, Chad, South Sudan, Rwanda, Kenya, Ethiopia and Haiti. He has written extensively about the plight of refugees, and has secured much needed funding for medical clinics in refugee camps. DONA KOPOL BONICK is an esteemed portraitist and artist whose photographic career spans three decades. The photography director for the inaugural BottleRock music festival, her works have appeared in many books, art museums, and private collections. ISHMAEL BEAH whose work has been published in over 30 countries, is the New York Times Bestselling author of A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier , Radiance of Tomorrow: A Novel, and Little Family: A Novel.
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Foreword by Ishmael Beah Introduction 1 Meron Semedar, Eritrea Hope Is the Oxygen of My Life 2 Noemi Perez-Lemus, Guatemala Children Who Returned from a Walk through Hell 3 Asinja Badeel, Iraq and the Yazidis The Imaginary Girl 4 Deng Ajak Jongkuch, South Sudan He Threw Garbage on Me 5 Sidonia Lax, Poland The Apple Lady 6 Malk Alamarsh, Syria The Walls Have Ears 7 Vanny Loun, Cambodia A River of Memories 8 Darwin Velasquez, El Salvador Blind but the Heart Can See 9 Kien Ha Quach Thien, Vietnam The Life Before and the Life After 10 Wilita Sanguma, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) They Bombed My Church on Christmas Day 1998 11 Jawad Khawari, Afghanistan Empty Walls Acknowledgments Index
Foreword by Ishmael Beah Introduction 1 Meron Semedar, Eritrea Hope Is the Oxygen of My Life 2 Noemi Perez-Lemus, Guatemala Children Who Returned from a Walk through Hell 3 Asinja Badeel, Iraq and the Yazidis The Imaginary Girl 4 Deng Ajak Jongkuch, South Sudan He Threw Garbage on Me 5 Sidonia Lax, Poland The Apple Lady 6 Malk Alamarsh, Syria The Walls Have Ears 7 Vanny Loun, Cambodia A River of Memories 8 Darwin Velasquez, El Salvador Blind but the Heart Can See 9 Kien Ha Quach Thien, Vietnam The Life Before and the Life After 10 Wilita Sanguma, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) They Bombed My Church on Christmas Day 1998 11 Jawad Khawari, Afghanistan Empty Walls Acknowledgments Index
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