| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xvi, 250 pages ; 24 cm |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Part One: Burning my ships -- My Somali uncle -- Somaliland roots -- From hedge fund manager to headmaster -- Modern-day nomad -- Results day -- The exam -- The blank sheet of paper -- Part Two: Building a school -- First trip to Somaliland -- Clans -- Teachers -- The Abaarso condition -- Part Three: School culture -- Mohamed: a day in the life -- Straight talks and motivation -- Fahima's rocks -- Critical thinking -- Fundamentals -- Integrity -- Suzanne's orphanage -- Selection day -- Part Four: The great miscalculation -- The white man speaks Somali -- A complex world -- The village -- Like water through a sieve -- Doing something right -- Money disguised as religion -- trouble with the boys -- Khadar's rage -- Nothing is easy -- Harry's mad dash -- The Higher Education Committee -- Part Five: Technology -- Selling success -- No good deed goes unpunished -- A Somali among the elite -- Twenty-seven schools in twenty-five days -- SAT trip -- Deportation -- The full arsenal -- Part Six: Winning the society -- Miss Marple -- Religious council -- Vindication -- The cherry on top -- Part Seven: When arms are open -- Show me the money -- Our best ambassadors -- The future -- In Harvard Yard -- Epilogue. |
| Summary |
An American hedge fund manager describes how he founded a unique school in Somaliland and overcame profound cultural differences, broken promises, and threats to his safety to create a school whose students, against all odds, have come to achieve extraordinary success. |
| Subject |
Starr, Jonathan, 1976-
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Abaarso School of Science & Technology.
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Schools -- Somaliland (Secessionist government, 1991- )
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Education -- Somaliland (Secessionist government, 1991- )
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Somali students -- United States.
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Investment advisors -- United States -- Biography.
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| ISBN |
9781250113467 (hardcover) |
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1250113466 (hardcover) |
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