Dial ‘D’ for Dadaab
James Maskalyk is an emergency physician and, when not in the field, lives and works in Toronto. His first mission with MSF was in Abyei, in a small hospital on the still contested border between North and South Sudan, and his
blog from there
became a book
Six Months in Sudan.
He is in the field again, working and living in a refugee camp in Dadaab, Kenya, home to 300,000 displaced Somali people.
Monthly Archives: August 2007
last.
I am on another airplane, packaged into a tiny seat watching a stewardess deliver tiny packages of food. below us, blueblue lake superior. after an evening emergency shift, I was up early unpacking from my last trip and repacking for … Continue reading
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toronto city.
i stood by the luggage carousel, sleepless, blinking underneath the bright fluorescent lights and watched for my backpack amidst a circular parade of black suitcases. it came. i put it on my back for the last time and called the … Continue reading
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an end.
this is an end. from it, abutting it, is a beginning. one that I can’t yet see. I am writing this in east berlin. it is raining softly. the skies, however, look like they are about to clear. there is … Continue reading
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“…austere as the Sudanese landscape, this book has poetry in it along with pain…” – The Washington Post
