Voices in Refuge ― Stories from Sudanese Refugees in Cairo

As they spoke to a group of students at the American University in Cairo, the 13 refugees went beyond the conventional image of them as victims, discussing such matters as the government, non-state actors, civil society, marriage, religious strife, and family values. They are linked to each other by dislocation, nationality, and history, but vary in economic and professional status, religion, age, gender, and when they fled the 20-year conflict in Sudan. The interviews have been edited into first-personal testimony. There is no index. Distributed in the US by International Publishers Marketing (IPM). Annotation c2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Nora Eltahawy is a graduate of the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the American University in Cairo. She is currently pursuing a graduate degree in Comparative Literature at the University of Texas at Austin where she plans to specialize in the literature of minorities and Arab-American fiction. Brooke Comer is a fiction writer and journalist who teaches writing at the American University in Cairo. She has contributed to The New York Times, New York Magazine, and The Los Angeles Times. Amani Elshimi is director of community-based learning and senior lecturer in the Department of Rhetoric and Composition at the American University in Cairo.