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Shadow Behind the Sun is published by the Highland based publisher Sandstone Press. It is an enthralling read. The refugees lack of a voice means that not only is their experience in the UK largely unheard and misunderstood. The experiences which drove them to come here are also lost to most of us. Remzije Sherifi devotes large sections of Shadow Behind the Sun to her life and work with other immigrants in Scotland. But the most moving and intriguing sections of her well-written and carefully assembled story deal with this former journalist s life as an Albanian woman in Yugoslavia and then, unluckily, in Greater Serbia. --Roger Hutchison in The Scotsman
DARK horrors lurk behind Remzije Sherifi s bright smile. Sitting behind her desk at the Maryhill Integration Network in Glasgow she exudes happiness and optimism despite the fact the memory of all she has lost is with her every day. Remzije grew up in Gjilan in the south-east of Kosovo. She completed an HND in electrical engineering and education in Prishtina before training as a radio journalist. She worked hard to make her way in the industry, eventually becoming editor of Radio Gjilan. However, during the 1990s Remzije had her job taken away from her as Serbia attempted to suppress thousands of ethnic Albanians living in Kosovo. It was a huge blow, but there was more trouble looming. In the late 1990s, forces under Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic attempted to overpower the Albanian majority s campaign for independence. A conflict followed, during which time Serbian forces carried out a campaign of ethnic cleansing. Serbian tanks Hundreds of thousands of refugees fled to Albania, Macedonia and Montenegro. Among them were Remzije and her family. --Sunday Post
Shadow Behind The Sun is perhaps the first substantial book to emerge from the wave of new Scots who have arrived here in the last decade from war zones across the world - from Iraq and Afghanistan. from Sudan and Zimbabwe, and of course from former Yugoslavia, in this case from Kosova. In this book, written with the help of Robert Davidson of Sandstone Press, Remzije Sherifi intercuts her story of the conflict in Kosova - the history of the region, the conflict which developed in the 1990 s, and the reasons why she and her family finally had to leave - with her experiences today, working as an adviser to other refugees and asylum seekers in a drop-in centre in Glasgow. And between these two poles of experience, she produces a remarkable memoir. It s an angry book, but also a profoundly thoughtful one about the way in which this kind of ethnic conflict can flare up within months, or a few short years, in what previously seemed a peaceful and harmonious society, and about her experience of working with others who have faced similar crises. Sherifi is a woman younger than me, who has already seen more suffering and trauma than anyone should have to see in a lifetime. But she is still learning, growing and changing here in Scotland, building a new life which is not the same as the old one, but which still brings new challenges and fulfilments. And while there is never any room for complacency on these issues, I think that s something in which we can take some small amount of pride. --Joyce McMillan at the Saltire Society Awards
DARK horrors lurk behind Remzije Sherifi s bright smile. Sitting behind her desk at the Maryhill Integration Network in Glasgow she exudes happiness and optimism despite the fact the memory of all she has lost is with her every day. Remzije grew up in Gjilan in the south-east of Kosovo. She completed an HND in electrical engineering and education in Prishtina before training as a radio journalist. She worked hard to make her way in the industry, eventually becoming editor of Radio Gjilan. However, during the 1990s Remzije had her job taken away from her as Serbia attempted to suppress thousands of ethnic Albanians living in Kosovo. It was a huge blow, but there was more trouble looming. In the late 1990s, forces under Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic attempted to overpower the Albanian majority s campaign for independence. A conflict followed, during which time Serbian forces carried out a campaign of ethnic cleansing. Serbian tanks Hundreds of thousands of refugees fled to Albania, Macedonia and Montenegro. Among them were Remzije and her family. --Sunday Post
Shadow Behind The Sun is perhaps the first substantial book to emerge from the wave of new Scots who have arrived here in the last decade from war zones across the world - from Iraq and Afghanistan. from Sudan and Zimbabwe, and of course from former Yugoslavia, in this case from Kosova. In this book, written with the help of Robert Davidson of Sandstone Press, Remzije Sherifi intercuts her story of the conflict in Kosova - the history of the region, the conflict which developed in the 1990 s, and the reasons why she and her family finally had to leave - with her experiences today, working as an adviser to other refugees and asylum seekers in a drop-in centre in Glasgow. And between these two poles of experience, she produces a remarkable memoir. It s an angry book, but also a profoundly thoughtful one about the way in which this kind of ethnic conflict can flare up within months, or a few short years, in what previously seemed a peaceful and harmonious society, and about her experience of working with others who have faced similar crises. Sherifi is a woman younger than me, who has already seen more suffering and trauma than anyone should have to see in a lifetime. But she is still learning, growing and changing here in Scotland, building a new life which is not the same as the old one, but which still brings new challenges and fulfilments. And while there is never any room for complacency on these issues, I think that s something in which we can take some small amount of pride. --Joyce McMillan at the Saltire Society Awards
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In this dramatic and personal account Remzije Sherifi integrates the two great themes of her life by joining her family and people s history with the story of her work with asylum seekers in Britain. Her view of the Kosova atrocities will surprise many as she places it at the culmination of a long persecution, and the persecutions within a longer history still. Integration and the failure of integration are motifs throughout this book, often appearing when they are least expected. Shadows cross the face of the earth as we read, and more individuals and families are displaced than ever before. In a radiant closure Remzije Sherifi warns of dangers to come and urges us towards awareness and generosity. The body of the book contains direct interviews with asylum seekers describing the conditions in which they live, thus placing the individual human being and the family at the heart of the tragedy. In appendices it also contains interviews with Dr Elinor Kelly and Janet Andrews, Secretary of the Maryhill Integration Network, and with Nick Hopkins, its co-founder.
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This review is from: Shadow Behind the Sun: Flight from Kosovo: A Woman's Story (Non-Fiction) (Paperback)
This is a riveting and illuminating book. The author is an Albanian Kosovar who lived through a long period of persecution by what was supposed to be her own government. This culminated in the atrocities and flight we all saw on television. Before that there was the longer context of steady clearance of Albanians southward, by Serbians, from the region for over a hundred years. Over the decade before, of course, the forces of Greater Serbia had been exerting themselves all across the region.
For all of this Remzije Sherifi maintains a forgiving spirit and constructive outlook. Reading her book you feel she longs to return to her homeland to help with the rebuilding, only health prevents her. She is a cancer survivor. Now she works with asylum seekers in Britain and, with her colleagues, obviously does a tremendous job for understanding and tolerance in almost impossible circumstances. We need more like her in this country. The Chief Executive of the Scottish Refugee Council has been quoted as saying 'this book should be compulsory reading for all politicians'. The Scottish Review of Books says it should be distributed to all readers of the Daily Mail. It clears away all the misleading hype that surrounds the asylum seeker issue and brings the individuals and their families forward as normal human beings in extraordinary circumstances. It is also a totally gripping read.
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