by Hawa Abdi
Hawa in the camp, October 2007. (©Kuni Takahashi/Getty Images)
An armed security guard patrols the camp, January 2007. [After the May 2010 attack, camp guards no longer carried guns.] (©Seamus Murphy/VII Network/Corbis)
View of Hawa Abdi Village from Hawa’s “Camp David,” January 2007. (©Seamus Murphy/VII Network/Corbis)
Amina (center) guiding a patient into the hospital’s outpatient clinic, October 2010. (©Farah Abdi Warsameh/AP Photo)
The Hawa Abdi Hospital, October 2010. The building in the foreground houses the surgery department (lower level) and the gynecology department (upper level). The white building in the background (left) is the general hospital. (©Farah Abdi Warsameh/AP Photo)
Fifth- and sixth- grade students at the camp’s school, July 2011. (©Mohammed Ibrahim/The New York Times)
Teacher (left) and student at the Women’s Education Center, October 2010. (©Farah Abdi Warsameh/AP Photo)
Two women bring firewood, water, and food for cooking to the Women’s Education Center, July 2011. (©Mohammed Ibrahim/The New York Times)
Two displaced children walk from the well through Hawa’s “Camp David” toward their temporary homes, May 2007. (©Sahal Abdulle/Sipa Press)
At the Glamour magazine Women of the Year Awards, November 2010. From left to right: Katie Couric, Deqo, Hawa, and Amina. (©Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images)
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Contents
Welcome
Dedication
Introduction: Keeping Hope Alive
1. A Stranger in My Homeland
2. Gold Is Made Beautiful by Fire
3. To Stop the Bleeding
4. Paradise in the World
5. Friends and Enemies
6. Awaiting a Life, Awaiting a Death
7. Filling the Hole in My Heart
8. Losing My Past and My Future
9. Building My Practice
10. My Sisters Return
11. Necessity Is the Mother of Invention
12. Collapse
13. Why Do You Want to Do This?
14. Danger from Within
15. Today We Are Happy
16. Operation Restore Hope
17. One Wrong Decision
18. The Fourth Container
19. Vice Minister of Labor and Sports
20. We Can Remember
21. Ahmed
22. “A Doctor Bound by Humanity”
23. An Ocean of Need
24. A New Generation
25. The Attack
26. Women of the Year
27. Forgiveness
About the Authors
Glossary of Somali Terms
Hawa’s Family
Acknowledgments
Photo Inserts
Newsletters
Copyright
Copyright
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