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	<title>Six Months in Sudan</title>
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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>
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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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		<title>everything does everything and is produced everywhere.</title>
		<link>http://www.sixmonthsinsudan.com/2009/11/everything-does-everything-and-is-produced-everywhere/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 02:47:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[after Leeuwenhoek, we realized that things were much smaller than we imagined, and  we’ve busied ourselves ever since detailing the infinite number of  tiny moving parts that make up our world and ourselves.  we’ve become so fascinated at our ability to reduce, that we have almost been able to convince ourselves that love is a flush of seretonin and oxytocin and dopamine, or a broken heart, their nadir.  perhaps the truth is that when someone's heart starts beating pat-pat-pat at the first rings of her telephone, that these hormones are not love's explanation, but rather  the residue it leaves as it passes through her, to him.]]></description>
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		<title>break.</title>
		<link>http://www.sixmonthsinsudan.com/2009/11/break/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:33:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[circling back to itacare, brazil, high in the air.  the last time i was there, between sessions of being tumbled by the ocean’s wash, surfboard tangled somewhere deep below (above?), i was checking my email madly to see if a mission had come through.  this time i will be doing it to see if i get to travel to London to accept the John Llewyn Rhys prize for the book i wrote about the one that eventually did.  it might be the only compelling reason in the world to leave brazil early.  in the hold below me, in my backpack underneath pairs of shorts and sunglasses and different flavors of Frisbees is an overcoat, a scarf, galoshes, a shirt, and a tie. ]]></description>
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		<title>Interview (audio) &#8211; World Vision Report</title>
		<link>http://www.sixmonthsinsudan.com/2009/11/audio/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:46:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nov 16, 2009 &#8211; Interview &#8211; &#8220;World Vision Report&#8221; (14 min)
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		<title>such great heights&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.sixmonthsinsudan.com/2009/10/such-great-heights/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:09:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[i think there is a subtle shift in the psychology of many in the high income world with their responsibility to those who are born into poverty.  a decade ago, there was a belief that spending oceans of money would allow some of it to trickle down and float boats for even the poorest.  it was easy.  business as usual.  we're doing something by doing nothing.   now with the wisdom of overconsumption in question, i sense a change in belief, one that allows us to keep our actions unexamined, to conduct business as usual, to ignore a true responsibity to those who suffer, then die young.  it is this:  does the world really need any more humans?]]></description>
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