Bibliograph

All we leave behind, a reporter's journey into the lives of others, Carol Off

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All we leave behind, a reporter's journey into the lives of others, Carol Off

Language

eng

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

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illustrationsmaps

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

All we leave behind

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

1004663840

Responsibility statement

Carol Off

Sub title

a reporter's journey into the lives of others

Summary

--As It Happens In 2002, Carol Off and a CBC TV crew encountered an Afghan man with a story to tell. Asad Aryubwal became a key figure in 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 of the warlords, 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. The family faced an uncertain future. But their dilemma compelled a journalist to cross the lines of disinterested reporting and become deeply involved. Together, they navigated the Byzantine international bureaucracy and the decidedly unwelcoming policies of Stephen Harper's government until the family finally found a new home. 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 irrevocably caught up in the lives of the people in her story and finds herself unable to leave them behind

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