In this book, eleven men and women share their extraordinary stories of fleeing life-threatening hardship in their home countries in search of a better life in the United States. Giving a voice to refugees from such far-flung locations as Eritrea, Guatemala, Poland, Syria, and Vietnam, it weaves together a rich tapestry of human resilience, suffering, and determination.
In this book, eleven men and women share their extraordinary stories of fleeing life-threatening hardship in their home countries in search of a better life in the United States. Giving a voice to refugees from such far-flung locations as Eritrea, Guatemala, Poland, Syria, and Vietnam, it weaves together a rich tapestry of human resilience, suffering, and determination. 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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