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Far in the Waste Sudan: On Assignment in Africa by Nicholas Coghlan Publisher Comments In 2000, with controversy raging over the presence in Sudan of Talisman Energy, Canada's largest independent oil and gas producer, Ottawa decided to open a post in Khartoum. Nicholas Coghlan was recalled from assignment in Colombia to set up and run... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $35.50 Google eBooks - Electronic 
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Love Has a Face: Mascara, a Machete and One Woman's Miraculous Journey with Jesus in Sudan by Michele Perry Publisher Comments Termites for dinner. Bombs in the backyard. A nation torn by decades of war still on the brink. Can one life really make a difference? Born without her left hip and leg, Michele Perry is no stranger to seeming impossibilities. So when she arrived in war... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Life of the Sudanese Mahdi by Haim Shaked Publisher Comments The Mahdia was an important Islamic millenarian movement of the Nilotic Sudan in the last two decades of the nineteenth century. It contributed substantially to the emergence of the Sudan as a nation-state in the twentieth century. The Mahdis family and... (read more) List Price $23.96 Your price: $21.26 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Dedicated to the People of Darfur: Writings on Fear, Risk, and Hope by Luke Reynolds Publisher Comments Life's changes. They happen every day. Some large, some small. A few are very personal. Others impact the world. Dedicated to the People of Darfur: Writings on Fear, Risk, and Hope includes original and inspiring essays that celebrate the glories gained... (read more) Your price: $23.95 Google eBooks - Electronic
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God Grew Tired of Us: a Memoir (08 Edition) by John Bul Dau Publisher Comments "Lost Boy" John Bul Daus harrowing experience surviving the brutal horrors of Sudanese civil war and his adjustment to life in modern America is chronicled in this inspiring memoir and featured in an award-winning documentary film of the same name... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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War Child: A Child Soldier's Story by Emmanuel Jal Publisher Comments In the mid-1980s, Emmanuel Jal was a seven year old Sudanese boy, living in a small village with his parents, aunts, uncles, and siblings. But as Sudans civil war moved closer—with the Islamic government seizing tribal lands for water, oil, and... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Fighting for Darfur: Public Action and the Struggle to Stop Genocide by Rebecca Hamilton Publisher Comments Around the world, millions of people have added their voices to protest marches and demonstrations because they believe that, together, they can make a difference. When we failed to stop the genocide in Rwanda in 1994, we promised to never let such a... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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Lost Boys of Sudan: an American Story of the Refugee Experience (05 Edition) by Mark Bixler Publisher Comments In 2000 the United States began accepting 3,800 refugees from one of Africas longest civil wars. They were just some of the thousands of young men, known as “Lost Boys,” who had been orphaned or otherwise separated from their families in the... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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God Grew Tired of Us by John Bul Dau Publisher Comments This unforgettable book is the first-person account of a miracle—indeed, a whole series of miracles. A tale of suffering, tragedy, and sorrow redeemed by indomitable resolve and a stubborn refusal to despair, it's set in a Sudan shadowed by... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Darfur: A Short History of a Long War (African Arguments) by Julie Flint Publisher Comments This book details the history of Darfur, its conflicts, and the designs on the region by the governments in Khartoum and Tripoli. It investigates the identity of the infamous "Janjawiid" militia and the nature of the insurrection, charts the unfolding... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Tears of the Desert: A Memoir of Survival in Darfur by Halima Bashir Publisher Comments Like the single white eyelash that graces her row of dark lashes–seen by her people as a mark of good fortune–Halima Bashirs story stands out. Tears of the Desert is the first memoir ever written by a woman caught up in the war in Darfur. It... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Darfur: The Ambiguous Genocide (Crises in World Politics) by Gerard Prunier Book News Annotation Prunier (U. of Paris) aims to uncover the complexities of the violence in the Darfur region of Sudan and to that end discusses the history of the region, analyzes the political motivations of the contending political parties and militia groups, seeks... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $11.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur by Daoud Hari Publisher Comments "I am the translator who has taken journalists into dangerous Darfur. It is my intention now to take you there in this book, if you have the courage to come with me." The young life of Daoud Hari-his friends call him David — has been one of... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Darfur: A 21st Century Genocide by Gérard Prunier Publisher Comments Darfur: The Ambiguous Genocide explains what lies behind the conflict in Western Sudan, how it came about, why it is should not be oversimplified, and why it is so relevant to the future of Africa. As the world watches, governments decide if, when, and... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $15.93 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Far in the Waste Sudan: On Assignment in Africa by Nicholas Coghlan Synopsis "In diplomatic circles, you cry when you hear you've been posted to Sudan, but you cry even more when you leave." Oil rich and on the divide between Africa and the Middle East, Sudan is one of Africa's most inaccessible countries. Nicholas Coghlan takes... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Sudan-Contested National Identities (Indiana Series in Middle East Studies) by Ann Mosely Lesch Synopsis This highly informative work digs into the intricate history of Sudanese politics. Lesch brings a welcome clarity to Sudan's tangle of political, ethnic, and religious problems by concentrating on the country's central dilemma: the inability of its... (read more) List Price $32.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Darfur: The Ambiguous Genocide by Gerard Prunier Publisher Comments In mid-2004 the Darfur crisis in Western Sudan forced itself onto the center stage of world affairs. Arab Janjaweed militias, who support the Khartoum government, have engaged in a campaign of violence against the residents of Western Sudan. A formerly... (read more) Your price: $24.00 New - Hardcover
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Darfur by Lucian Niemeyer Publisher Comments Niemeyer's travels in the Sudan are illustrated by his stunning color photographs of the people caught in the wrenching violence.... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $20.49 Used - Hardcover
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Sudan, South Sudan, and Darfur: What Everyone Needs to Know (What Everyone Needs to Know) by Andrew Natsios Publisher Comments For thirty years Sudan has been a country in crisis, wracked by near-constant warfare between the north and the south. But on July 9, 2011, South Sudan became an independent nation. As Sudan once again finds itself the focus of international attention... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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Sudan: Darfur, Islamism and the World by Richard Cockett Publisher Comments Over the past two decades, the situation in Africas largest country, Sudan, has progressively deteriorated: the country is in second position on the Failed States Index, a war in Darfur has claimed hundreds of thousands of deaths, President Bashir has... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $15.95 Used - Trade Paper
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