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		<title>vintage.</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Hmm,&#8221; he said.  &#8220;Lookie, Ma. I been all day an&#8217; all night hidin&#8217; alone.  Guess who I been thinkin&#8217; about? Casy!  He talked a lot.  Used ta bother me. But now I been thinkin&#8217; about what he said, an&#8217; I can remember &#8211; all of it.
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		<title>SMiS a finalist for prize in political writing.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 17:28:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing is a Canadian literary award, presented annually by the Writers&#8217; Trust of Canada to the best non-fiction book on Canadian political and social issues. It was presented for the first time in 2000.
It is named in honour of Shaughnessy Cohen, a Liberal Member of Parliament who died in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SMiS shortlisted for John Llewyn Rhys prize.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 17:25:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The John Llewellyn Rhys Prize is a literary prize awarded annually for the best work of literature (fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama) by an author from the Commonwealth aged 35 or under, written in English and published in the United Kingdom.
Click here to read more about the shortlisted books.
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		<title>Shaugnessy-Cohen Prize Speech (I never got to give).</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 16:46:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[what tools have we made?  are we capturing their best use?  is there a duty to share them so that they might reach their full potential?  or does our responsibility to pursue parity, or peace, diminish the further we are from a fallow field or a rifle’s report?  if not, to whom do these tasks fall?  our government?  or to your sons and daughters?  and in these questions, perhaps, the most interesting one to me:  who are we, really, beneath our fancy clothes.]]></description>
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		<title>news.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:54:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[aweil is alive. she is the girl for whom i wrote my book, the one with tuberculosis who arrived to the hospital early in my mission, and stayed with me throughout it. i visited her every day, got to watch her change from a dwindling infant to a strong, smiling, laughing, grasping girl with bright eyes. the war came, after i’d left, and i lost her. she’s been found. or at least word has been. she is in a town in southern sudan, with her father. that news has made for the brightest February.]]></description>
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		<title>SMiS Nominated for Prize in Political Writing</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 23:58:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Established in honour of the late, outspoken, and popular MP, the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize is administered by The Writers' Trust of Canada. This award is presented for a non-fiction book that captures a subject of political interest to the Canadian reader and enhances our understanding of the issue.]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;&#8230;Maskalyk is a natural, fluent writer&#8230;&#8221; &#8211; The London Review of Books</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:42:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reading it is rather like sitting through an episode of ER. You marvel at the responsibility placed on these brave volunteers, summoned from their tukuls in the early hours to deal with the victims of a marketplace shooting. You shudder vicariously at the pus and the gore, delivered with a just manageable dose of medical jargon. You share Maskalyk’s sense of defeat as he calls time over the body of yet another emaciated Sudanese mother who has failed to survive childbirth, and his sense of release as he unwinds with his equally exhausted peers, gazing at the stars.]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;A journey to hell and back&#8221; &#8211; Interview &#8211; Spruce Grove Examiner &#8211; Dec 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.sixmonthsinsudan.com/2009/12/a-journey-to-hell-and-back-interview-spruce-grove-examiner-dec-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:45:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA["The more I get asked that question about why you wanted to be a doctor, I think I've come up with a correct answer and I think the answer is M*A*S*H*. I watched a lot of M*A*S*H* when I was a kid."

"At some point in your career you have to recognize that your position of privilege in the society that you live in is predicated on the fact that you take care of the sick ones. That responsibility, in my opinion, doesn't end at imaginary lines and I think that it extends to other parts of the world," said Maskalyk when asked if a doctor has the obligation to lend his trade to those less fortunate, not just those who walk through hospital doors.

Maskalyk recalls taking to a mentor, early in his career, after he returned from a difficult time in Cambodia.

"I was tired, confused, you know, full of questions.  I asked him, 'Why should I be doing this in the first place?' He said, 'Because it's your bloody duty, that's why.' And I thought, 'he's right'."

"You have to imagine your fellow Canadians would find it egregious that people are suffering from treatable diseases in other parts of the world. I think that it's something that should be part of one's career if possible.
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		<title>&#8220;Six Months in Sudan equals a lifetime of change&#8221; &#8211; interview &#8211; U of C Magazine &#8211; Nov 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.sixmonthsinsudan.com/2009/12/six-months-in-sudan-equals-a-lifetime-of-change-interview-u-of-c-magazine-nov-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:35:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA["As students, there's that wonderful truth that you can really enunciate what you want to see in the world through your actions," he says.  "The privilege that you have been given to understand the world is unique and has the opportunity to encourage personal change and perhaps, with time, societal change as well."

In some regards, articulating his experiences has given Maskalyk a greater sense of peace, though he admits he may never make complete peace with it.  Although he physically left Sudan some time ago, the country, its people and the work he did there stays with him.

"My title, Six Months in Sudan is disingenuous," Maskalyk says.   "My engagement in Sudan and talking about it is much longer; it lasts a lifetime.  And the only real truth I see in the world, unfortunately, is that we have to leave it at some time. The rest of it--what you do with the time that you're given--is really up to you."
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		<title>&#8220;James Maskalyk&#8217;s experience as a doctor in Sudan&#8221; &#8211;  Ode Magazine &#8211; July 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.sixmonthsinsudan.com/2009/12/james-maskalyks-experience-as-a-doctor-in-sudan-ode-magazine-july-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:30:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, the situation in Sudan got a lot worse. Some colleagues of mine got kidnapped, some of our sections left Darfur. My only compulsion after hearing such news is, How can I get back there? How can I continue doing this work? And rather than finding the answer to the question of how I can fit this kind of work into my life, I realize the real question has become, How can I fit a life into this kind of work?]]></description>
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