Tears of the Desert: A Memoir of Survival in Darfur

“[Halima Bashir’s] mesmerizing tale of against-all-odds endurance is a piercing lament—and a clear-eyed call to action.”—Vogue

“This memoir helps keep the Darfur tragedy open as a wound not yet healed.”—Elie Wiesel, author of Night

Born into the Zaghawa tribe in the Sudanese desert, Halima Bashir received a good education away from her rural surroundings (thanks to her doting, politically astute father) and at twenty-four became her village’s first formal doctor. Yet not even Bashir’s degre...