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- Born
- 23 November 1980
- Works
- 8
Top works
- A Long Way Gone
- דרך ארוכה
- THE MAKING, AND UNMAKING OF A CHILD SOLDIER
- I Am Not Your Enemy
- Radiance of Tomorrow
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Ishmael Beah was born in Sierra Leone in 1980. He moved to the United States in 1998 and finished his last two years of high school at the United Nations International School in New York. In 2004 he graduated from Oberlin College with a B.A. in political science. He is a member of the Human Rights Watch Children’s Rights Division Advisory Committee and has spoken before the United Nations, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Center for Emerging Threats and Opportunities (CETO) at the Marine Co
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Sierra Leone
- Place of birth
- Mattru Jong
- Occupation
- soldier
- Position held
- UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador
- Educated at
- United Nations International School
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- Islam
- Official website
- www.ishmaelbeah.com
- Image
- IshmaelBeahDUES.jpg
- Work location
- New York City
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- date of birth
- 1980-11-23
- Commons category
- Ishmael Beah
- social media followers
- 12898
- name in kana
- イシメール・ベア
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- WikiProject Human rights
- start of work period
- 2007-00-00
- P10632
- Ishmael Beah
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