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HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM
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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 -- Somalia -- Biography.
Somalia -- Biography.
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Keeping hope alive :...
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Keeping hope alive : one woman: 90,000 lives changed / Hawa Abdi ; with Sarah J. Robbins.
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Hawa Abdi, 1947-
New York, NY : Grand Central Pub., 2013.
Subjects
Hawa Abdi, 1947-
Women human rights workers -- Somalia -- Biography.
Human rights workers -- Somalia -- Biography.
Women gynecologists -- Somalia -- Biography.
Gynecologists -- Somalia -- Biography.
Somalia -- Biography.
ISBN:
9781455503766 (hardcover) :
1455503762 (hardcover)
Description:
xvii, 246 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), map ; 22 cm.
Edition:
1st ed.
Contents:
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 within -- 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.
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"The ... memoir of one brave woman who, along with her daughters, has kept tens of thousands of her fellow Somali citizens safe, healthy, and educated for more than twenty years"--Dust jacket flap.
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Hawaii State Library
Social Science & Philosophy
323.092 Abdi Ab
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