A Look Inside the World's Largest Refugee Camp

The Leonard Lopate Show | Jan 4, 2016

Author and former researcher for Human Rights Watch Ben Rawlence discusses Dadaab, an isolated refugee settlement located deep within the desert of northern Kenya. In his book, City of Thorns: 9 Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp, Rawlence embeds himself within the camp, and learns about the refugees who came seeking sanctuary but found a hostile, desperate existence. 

EVENT: Ben Rawlence will be in Conversation with Howard French on Wednesday, Jan. 6 from 12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. at Open Society Foundations, 224 West 57 Street (at Broadway), New York, NY. This event is free and open to the public.

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