Amanda Lindhout
Amanda Lindhout
Amanda Lindhout is a Canadian humanitarian, public speaker and journalist. On August 23, 2008, she and members of her entourage were kidnapped by Islamist insurgents in southern Somalia. She was released 15 months later on November 25, 2009, and has since embarked on a philanthropic career. In 2013, she released the New York Times bestseller A House in the Sky: A Memoir, in which she recounts her early life, travels as a young adult, and hostage experience. In 2014, the...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth12 June 1981
CountryCanada
Contemplating Christmas when you are isolated and far from home brings its own unique pain.
I don't only long for the thrill of being in the middle of a war, I must understand it; I must make other people understand.
Forgiving is not an easy thing to do.
I've realized that the world is, in essence, full of banana peels - loaded with things that may unwittingly trip an internal wire in my mind, opening a floodgate of fears without warning.
I think it's the human spirit inside of all of us that has an enormous capacity to survive.
Every day I have many choices to make about who I want to be.
Somalia is very dangerous, and no one knows that better than I.
Somalia is an important story in the world, and it needed to be told.
What happened to me in Somalia doesn't define me.