DAOUD HARI with MEGAN M. McKENNA
Thursday, April 17 at 7:30 p.m.

Sudanese tribesman Daoud Hari, a refugee of the Darfur region, received international attention for his work after fleeing from Darfur. Using a false identity and passport, he returned several times, working as guide and translator for U.S. journalists. In 2006, he and Pulitzer Prize-winning Chicago Tribune journalist Paul Salopek were imprisoned for over a month. Daoud Hari received particularly harsh treatment, including torture. International pressure eventually resulted in release. In The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur (Random House), he gives his own account of what horrors have unfolded in his homeland—and what might be done. Expected to be on hand with him this evening is one of the book's co-writers, Megan McKenna. As Daoud Hari helped translate for journalists over in Sudan, now, in telling this story, he translates a larger story to us all. It's a compelling story—one to read and act upon.

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