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• Title:The burden of exile : a banned journalist's flight from dictatorship / Aaron Berhane ; foreword by Brendan de Caires, Executive Director of PEN Canada.
  
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• Author/Creator:Berhane, Aaron, author.
  
• Published/Created:Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Dundurn Press, [2022]
  ©2022
  

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  • Location:EDUCATION LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: PN4913.B337 A3 2022
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Berhane, Aaron.
  Journalists--Canada--Biography.
  Exiles--Canada--Biography.
  Political persecution--Eritrea--Biography.
  Authors, African--Biography.
  Eritrea--Political aspects--Biography.
  
• Description:xi, 271 pages ; 22 cm
  
• Summary:"In the strict dictatorship of Eritrea, a young reporter co-founds the first independent newspaper, publishes stories that anger the president, and has to escape to save his life and his loved ones. An idealistic journalist with a young family starts the first independent newspaper in the notorious police state of Eritrea--one of the most brutal dictatorships in the world. When the paper is shut down, he flees arrest and begins a dangerous journey to freedom, first across a desert, at night, into Sudan, pursued by Eritrean secret police, then into secret safe houses in Kenya. With the help of the United Nations, he finds sanctuary in Canada--a place he knows nothing about. Meanwhile his wife and young children are stuck back home, in constant danger of reprisal. A true story of bravery amid complicated international geopolitics, of spies and guns and betrayal, and--ultimately--of triumph, and the piecing together of family in a cold new country."-- Provided by publisher.
  
• ISBN:9781459748545 paperback
  1459748549 paperback
  9781459748569 electronic publication
  9781459748552 electronic book
  
• Contents:Foreword
  Farewell
  Picking up Gebray
  Starting a newspaper business
  The invisible pressure
  The drive to Girmayka
  The border
  Angels and devils
  Travel document: Khartoum
  Life in the safe house: Kenya
  My first experience in exile: Regina
  The path to integration: Toronto.