Authors:Abdi Roble, Doug Rutledge, Somali Documentary Projec
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
Keywords: journey, diaspora, somali
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2008-09-12
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0816654573
ISBN-13: 9780816654574

Book DescriptionSince 2003, photographer Abdi Roble and writer Doug Rutledge have been documenting the lives of Somali immigrants in the United States and of the people forced into the vast refugee camps that were set up in Kenya in the wake of the 1991 civil war in Somalia. In The Somali Diaspora, Roble, who immigrated to the United States from Somalia in 1989, and Rutledge trace the journey of a family from the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya, home to more than 150,000 Somalis, to new lives in the United States. The Somali Diaspora follows the family of Abdisalem, his wife Ijabo, and their t

Author: Documentary Channel
Publisher: Central Park Media
Keywords: fake, perfect, dvd
Published: 2007-03-06
List price: $19.98
ISBN-10: B000MTDRFO
ISBN-13:

Myths and stories abound that speak to man’s desire to bring life to inanimate matter. A PERFECT FAKE looks at the persistence of these myths in modern times and takes us into the world of men who have chosen to reject the reality of human sexual companionship in order to pursue emotional and physical bonds with a variety of erotic surrogates.This film examines the emerging market for hyper-realisitic simulations of real women through computer-generated virtual pornography and erotica. A PERFECT FAKE also delves into the disturbing world of men who share their lives with life-size female