USA Today notes that this memoir, authored by Halima Bashir with Damien Lewis:
“Tears of the Desert gives voice to the unspeakable by describing the sexual violence suffered by women and girls in Darfur. The author is Halima Bashir, a Muslim doctor from Sudan's Zaghawa tribe now living in England.”
Publishers Weekly states:
“The violence the author recounts is harrowing: the outspoken Bashir endured brutal gang-rapes by government soldiers, and her village was wiped out by marauding Arab horsemen and helicopter gunships. This is a vehement cri de coeur—I wanted to fight and kill every Arab, to slaughter them, to drive them out of the country, the author thought upon treating girls who had been raped and mutilated—but in showing what she suffered, and lost, Bashir makes it resonate.”
The USA Today reviewer also called the account “searing.” An online excerpt is available here .
One World/Ballantine is the publisher.
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