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THE TRANSLATOR: A TRIBESMAN'S MEMOIR OF DARFUR Daoud Hari (New York: Random House, 2008), 204 pages.
In 2003, after years of looking for employment and months of rotting in an Egyptian jail, Daoud Hari decided to go back home to Darfur. He reached the village of his childhood just in time to flee from the Janjaweed helicopter gunships that turned his home into "ashes and graves."
Now as a refugee in Chad, Hari did what many fellow Zaghawa tribesmen did: resisted the Sudanese governmentbacked militia. Instead of...