🔗 Bravery in a brutal land: TEARS OF THE DESERT by Halima Bashir
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she was brutally beaten and repeatedly gang-raped, but survived to become the first woman to break her people's cultural taboos about rape and speak out in the Western media about her experiences, exposing what was happening in Darfur. Readers of Tears Of The Desert, her harrowing account of her life, will be overwhelmed by pity and rage.