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Cheikh, Sara

 
9781627311397: Tomorrow, Tomorrow, Insha Allah: How the Journey Back to My Roots Became an Adventurous Escape from the Sahara

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The cosmopolitan daughter ofSaharawi émigrés travels to visit her family in the forgotten refugeecity-camps scattered in the Western Sahara desert.

At the beginning of the Coronavirus outbreak, what was supposed to be a long-awaited homecoming becomesa desperate adventure escaping border guards and surviving on candy bars, allthe while trying to avoid losing her cool with unwanted and unlikely travelingcompanions. On her odyssey back home througha changing world, she faces starvation, the possibility of arrest, andkidnapping, as she attempts to cross the border into Algeria by any meanspossible. Alternating between tense, poignant, and funny, this heartfeltfirst-hand account explores life and lessons from the plight of the Saharawipeople. Sara's story questions the meaning of cultural heritage and theuniversal desire to have a homeland.

Tomorrow, Tomorrow, Insha Allah is Sara’s firstbook and is the first memoir published in English by a Saharawi woman writer. Thebook includes historical and personal black & white images, color imageinsert, and maps of the Saharawi territory and Sara’s journey. 

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Sara Cheikh is a Product Designer living in Barcelona. She was born in the Smara refugee camp in Tindouf, Algeria, where she lived until the age of six. Her father is a former political prisoner who worked as a translator for MINURSO (the UN mission in charge of the conflict between Western Sahara and Morocco). Through his work, brought Sara and her siblings to Spain in 1998.

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