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The Actual True Story of Ahmed and Zarga

The Actual True Story of Ahmed and Zarga

by Mohamedou Ould Slahi and Larry Siems
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Publication Date: 23/02/2021
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An epic story of a Bedouin family's survival and legacy amid their changing world in the unforgiving Sahara Desert. Ahmed is a camel herder, as his father was before him and as his young son Abdullahi will be after him. The days of Ahmed and the other families in their nomadic freeg are ruled by the rhythms of changing seasons, the needs of his beloved camel herd, and the rich legends and stories that link his life to centuries of tradition. But Ahmed's world is threatened--by the French colonizers just beyond the horizon, the urbanization of the modern world, and a drought more deadly than any his people have known. At first, Ahmed attempts to ignore these forces by concentrating on the ancient routines of herding life. But these routines are broken when a precious camel named Zarga goes missing. Saddling his trusted Laamesh, praying at the appointed hours, and singing the songs of his fathers for strength, Ahmed sets off to recover Zarga on a perilous journey that will bring him face to face with the best and the worst of humanity and test every facet of his Bedouin desert survival skills.
ISBN:
9780821424384
9780821424384
Category:
Classic fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
23-02-2021
Language:
English
Publisher:
Ohio University Press
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
215.9x139.7x15.24mm
Weight:
0.67kg
Mohamedou Ould Slahi

Mohamedou Ould Slahi was born in a small town in Mauritania in 1970. He won a scholarship to attend college in Germany and worked there for several years as an engineer.

He returned to Mauritania in 2000. The following year, at the behest of the United States, he was detained by Mauritanian authorities and rendered to a prison in Jordan; later he was rendered again, first to Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan, and finally, on 5 August 2002, to the US prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where he was subjected to severe torture.

In 2010, a federal judge ordered him immediately released, but the government appealed that decision. He was cleared and released on 16 October 2016, and repatriated to his native country of Mauritania. No charges were filed against him during or after this ordeal.

Larry Siems

Larry Siems is a writer and human rights activist and for many years directed the Freedom to Write Program at PEN American Center.

He is the author of The Torture Report: What the Documents Say about America's Post-9/11 Torture Program. He lives in New York.

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