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Hawa Abdi, 1947-
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Hawa Abdi, 1947-
Women human rights workers -- Somalia -- Biography.
Human rights workers -- Somalia -- Biography.
Women gynecologists -- Somalia -- Biography.
Gynecologists -- Biography.
Physicians, Black -- Somalia -- Biography.
Women, Black -- Somalia -- Biography.
Blacks -- Biography.
Somalia -- Biography.
Somalia -- History -- 1991-
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Hawa Abdi, 1947-
Hawa Abdi, 1947-
Women human rights workers -- Somalia -- Biography.
Human rights workers -- Somalia -- Biography.
Women gynecologists -- Somalia -- Biography.
Gynecologists -- Biography.
Physicians, Black -- Somalia -- Biography.
Women, Black -- Somalia -- Biography.
Blacks -- Biography.
Somalia -- Biography.
Somalia -- History -- 1991-
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Keeping hope alive : one woman : 90,000 lives changed / Hawa Abdi with Sarah J. Robbins.
by
Hawa Abdi, 1947-
Grand Central Publishing, c2013.
Call #:
323.092 H389k
Subjects
Hawa Abdi, 1947-
Women
human rights workers
--
Somalia
--
Biography
.
Human rights workers
--
Somalia
--
Biography
.
Women
gynecologists
--
Somalia
--
Biography
.
Gynecologists
--
Biography
.
Physicians, Black
--
Somalia
--
Biography
.
Women
, Black
--
Somalia
--
Biography
.
Blacks
--
Biography
.
Somalia
--
Biography
.
Somalia
--
History
--
1991-
ISBN:
9781455503766 (hc.)
1455503762 (hc.)
Alternate title:
One woman : 90,000 lives changed
1 woman : 90,000 lives changed
Description:
xvii, 246 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (on endpapers), photos. ; 21 cm.
Contents:
Introduction: keeping hope alive
--
A stranger in my homeland
--
Gold is made beautiful by fire
--
To stop the bleeding
--
Paradise in the world
--
Friends and enemies
--
Awaiting a life, awaiting a death
--
Filling the hole in my heart
--
Losing my past and my future
--
Building my practice
--
My sisters return
--
Necessity is the mother of invention
--
Collapse
--
Why do you want to do this?
--
Danger from without
--
Today we are happy
--
Operation Restore Hope
--
One wrong decision
--
The fourth container
--
Vice Minister of Labor and Sports
--
We can remember
--
Ahmed
--
"A doctor bound by humanity"
--
An ocean of need
--
A new generation
--
The attack
--
Women
of the year --Forgiveness.
Summary:
The moving memoir of one brave woman who, along with her daughters, has kept 90,000 of her fellow citizens safe, healthy, and educated for over 20 years in
Somalia
.
Genre:
Autobiographies.
Other authors:
Robbins, Sarah J.
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Woodlawn Public Library
Adult Biography
323.092 H389k
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