Michael Roffe
In the Sudan in 1881 an obscure son of a carpenter pronounced himself the 'Mahdi' or 'Guided One of the Prophet', the long-expected Messiah of the Islamic faith. His influence was so strong that Egypt (co-ruled by Britain and France) was plunged ... [... more]
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Tayeb Salih
After many years of study in Europe, the young narrator of Season of Migration to the North returns to his village along the Nile in the Sudan, eager to make a contribution to the new postcolonial life of his country. Back home, he discovers a ... [... more]
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Daoud Hari
Daoud Hari was born in the Darfur region of Sudan. After escaping an attack on his village, he entered the refugee camps in Chad and began serving as a translator for major news organizations including The New York Times, NBC, and the BBC, as ... [... more]
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Robert Wilkinson-Latham
In the Sudan in 1881 an obscure son of a carpenter pronounced himself the 'Mahdi' or 'Guided One of the Prophet', the long-expected Messiah of the Islamic faith. His influence was so strong that Egypt (co-ruled by Britain and France) was plunged ... [... more]
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Sonia Levitin
Fifteen-year-old Desta belongs to a small, isolated mountain community of Ethiopian Jews. She and her brother and sister leave their aunt and uncle and set out on the long and dangerous trip to freedom -- an airlift from the Sudan to Israel, the ... [... more]
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Denys Johnson-Davies
This dazzling anthology features the work of seventy-nine outstanding writers from all over the Arab-speaking world, from Morocco in the west to Iraq in the east, Syria in the north to Sudan in the south. Edited by Denys Johnson-Davies, called by ... [... more]
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Donald Featherstone
Early in 1881 unrest in the Sudan began to crystallise around Mohammed Ibn Ahmed el-Sayyid Abdullah. Proclaiming himself the long-expected Madhi, the Guided One of the Prophet, he preached that the Sudan was to be purged of its Egyptian ... [... more]
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Me Against My Brother: At War in Somalia, Sudan and Rwanda
 This book is not just about Rwanda, it is about extremes.: My humanitarian medical trip this year to Rwanda mandated that I attempt to understand the insanity of the genocide that killed, in 100 days, over one million children, women and men only eight [... more]
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Civilizing Women: British Crusades in Colonial Sudan
Author: Janice Boddy Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 392.1 EAN: 9780691123059 Edition: 1 ISBN: 0691123055 Number Of Pages: 440 Publication Date: 2007-07-02 [... more]
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Sudan: Race, Religion and Violence
Author: Jok Madut Jok Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 962.4043 EAN: 9781851683666 ISBN: 1851683666 Number Of Pages: 352 Publication Date: 2007-05-25 [... more]
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Rendicion o hambre: Viajes por Etiopia, Sudan, Somalia y ...
Author: Robert D. Kaplan Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 301 EAN: 9788466620581 Edition: 1 ISBN: 8466620583 Number Of Pages: 336 Publication Date: 2006-07-01 [... more]
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Surrender or Starve: Travels in Ethiopia, Sudan, ...
True Knowledge from the Ground: This book details Kaplan's reporting from the African famine zones in the mid-1980s. While specific events are getting outdated, Kaplan does provide plenty of insight and realism about famine and power in Africa. This book [... more]
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