Daoud Hari

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Daoud Hari (aka "Suleiman Abakar Moussa") is a Sudanese tribesman from the Darfur region of Sudan.[1] He has worked as a language interpreter and guide for NGO's and the press on fact-finding trips into the war-torn and dangerous Darfur area.[1] Hari was captured and detained by the government of Sudan as a spy in August 2006 along with Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Paul Salopek and their Chadian driver Abdulraham Anu (aka "Ali").[2][3] During their months-long ordeal all three men they were severely beaten and deprived.[1] Upon their successful release - after an international outcry from US diplomats, the US military, Bono and even the Pope[1] - Hari moved to the US where be began work on his memoirs to help bring further world attention to the plight of his people and country.[1] In 2008 he published his memoirs under the title The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur.[1]

Daoud Hari is also known as Suleiman Abakar Moussa. As he explains in his memoir,[1] this is a false identity he created to appear as a citizen of Chad in order that he might work in the Sudanese refugee camps in Chad as an interpreter (by Chad law, only Chadian citizens are allowed to work).

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g Daoud Hari. The Translator.
  2. ^ "Pulitzer Prize-winning U.S. journalist released from a Sudanese prison", AP, 9/9/2006
  3. ^ "Spying Charge Brought Against "Geographic" Reporter in Sudan", National Geographic, August 28, 2006

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  • The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur. New York: Random House, March 18, 2008. ISBN 978-1400067442
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