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I have just read a beautiful and remarkable book. It is DESERT SONGS, a woman explorer in Egypt and Sudan (2008). The author and photographer is Arita Baaijens, a western woman (Dutch-American father) who travels in the desert with her own small camel caravan. Her journeys also took her to North Darfur, where she followed old caravan routes, discovered ancient cities, met nomads and encountered private armies in the desert. It is not only an exciting and unusual story, it provides valuable insights of a woman without any support system, trying (among other things) to understand and test her limits in one of the most inhospitable environments on earth. She traveled in Darfur in 2000-2002, before the war officialy broke out. In 2008 she returned to find out what had happened to the people she had met back then. Some had joined the janjaweed, others had put down their weapons, a teacher had became a rebel leader, etc etc. Go to: http://www.aritabaaijens.nl
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