{"product_id":"a-camel-for-the-son","title":"A Camel For The Son","description":"\u003cp\u003eA Camel For The Son by Fazal Sheikh\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e(2001)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst Edition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSmall format hardback book in fine condition. Very subtle shelf wear to the back cover. Includes a Somali language text insert that has marked the two pages it has been kept between. Otherwise pages clean and binding firm. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSigned by Fazal Sheikh to inside cover page.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA \u003cspan\u003eCamel for the Son brings together two bodies of work: the first, a series of photographs made in Somali refugee camps in eastern Kenya between 1992 and 1994; the second, a series made nearly a decade later, after those camps had been consolidated around the town of Dadaab.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOn his earlier trips Fazal Sheikh had made a series of portraits of mothers and their babies at the feeding center in Mandera.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhen he returned in 2000, he found some of the same women and their children – now approaching puberty – still living in the camps. One of the main problems suffered by women in the camps was that they were being sexually assaulted – by Kenyans and by men from their own groups – when they went beyond the perimeter to find firewood.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe United National High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) had appointed a special advisor to interview the victims and bring some of the perpetrators to justice. Over the years, the women in the camps had organized themselves into powerful groups.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAbshiro Aden Mohammed, the leader of the women’s group in Dagahaley camp, handed Fazal Sheikh a letter, in effect a manifesto, in which she described the inequalities between men and women in her society. The letter provides the title for A Camel for the Son, the first in a series of books produced by the International Human Rights Series (IHRS), established by Fazal Sheikh in order to make his work more widely available free of charge.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fazal Sheikh","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57760422035838,"sku":null,"price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/2593\/1985\/files\/fazal-sheikh-a-camel-for-the-son-cover.heic?v=1785253727","url":"https:\/\/www.setantabooks.com\/en-us\/products\/a-camel-for-the-son","provider":"Setanta Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}