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Chargement... All We Leave Behind: A Reporter's Journey into the Lives of Otherspar Carol Off
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"When Home Won't Let You Stay tells the gripping story of a family's desperate attempts to escape Afghan warlords, Taliban oppression, and the persecutions of refugee life, in hopes that both their sons and their daughters could dare to dream of peace and opportunity. And behind the scenes, there are the unflagging efforts of one of Canada's most respected journalists, Carol Off, working assiduously to help the family achieve freedom and a promising future. In 2002, Carol Off and a CBC TV crew encountered an Afghan man with a story to tell. Asad Aryubwal became key to their documentary on the terrible power of thuggish warlords who were working arm in arm with Americans and NATO troops. When Asad publicly exposed the deeds of one particular warlord, General Abdul Rashid Dostum, it set off a chain of events from which there was no turning back. Asad, his wife, Mobina, and their five children had to flee their home. Their only chance for a peaceful life was to emigrate--yet year after year of agonizing limbo would ensue as they were thwarted by a Byzantine international bureaucracy and the decidedly unwelcoming policies of Stephen Harper's government. Carol Off's powerful account traces not only one family's journey and fraught attempts to immigrate to a safe place, it also illustrates what happens when a journalist becomes deeply involved with the people in her story and is unable to leave them behind."-- Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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I went into this book with a great deal of respect for Carol Off as a journalist -- I think she's fantastic on As It Happens -- but this book left me with an even greater sense of respect.
All We Leave Behind does a number of things as a book. Firstly, it provides detailed, but never confusing or bogged down, political background for the conflict in Afghanistan. It paints a portrait of one family in particular. It shows how challenging and sometimes overwhelming it can be to work as a journalist in a warzone. It illustrates how challenging, bureaucratic, and frustrating it can be to navigate the immigration and refugee systems in Canada.
And finally (most compellingly, in my opinion), it examines what it means to be a journalist and if it's possible or right to remain an un-interfering third party.
Compelling, timely, informative, and well-written, this is a book that I would recommend to anyone who enjoys Carol Off's journalism or is interested in Canada's refugee process. ( )