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24.01.2022 Listen to a fascinating interview as Dr Munjed Al Muderis talks to Booktopia about his work as an osseointegration surgeon, his goals, the refugee policy and his new memoir Going Back.

21.01.2022 Watch as Dr Munjed Al Muderis discusses the groundbreaking surgery he undertakes to restore the limbs of amputees, and tells Studio 10 how he now returns to Iraq to change the lives of those who've suffered during the warfare that saw him flee his home country twenty years ago.

19.01.2022 Munjed is towering over Melbourne as part of the brilliant I CAME BY BOAT campaign - look out for more posters around the country in coming weeks.

18.01.2022 Listen as Dr Munjed Al Muderis shares his remarkable story on ABC Conversations, as he discusses returning to Iraq to conduct life-changing operations, twenty years after he fled to Australia as a refugee.

14.01.2022 Today is World Refugee Day, and it's great to see Walking Free by Munjed Al Muderis amongst this selection of the top ten books to read for Refugee Week.

14.01.2022 If you haven't had the opportunity to hear Dr Munjed Al Muderis on his recent tour discussing his remarkable life and career, here's a recording from his recent event The Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre.

13.01.2022 In Dr Munjed Al Muderis' bestselling memoir Walking Free, he described his experience as a refugee fleeing Saddam Hussein's Iraq, his terrifying sea journey to Australia and the brutal mandatory detention he faced in the remote north of Western Australia. The book also detailed his early work as a pioneering orthopaedic surgeon at the cutting edge of world medicine. In Going Back, Munjed shares the extraordinary journey that his life-changing new surgical technique has taken... him on. Through osseointegration, he implants titanium rods into the human skeleton and attaches robotic limbs, allowing patients genuine, effective and permanent mobility. Munjed has performed this operation on hundreds of Australian civilians, wounded British soldiers who've lost legs in Iraq and Afghanistan, and a survivor of the Christchurch earthquake in New Zealand. But nothing has been as extraordinary as his return to Iraq after eighteen years, at the invitation of the Iraqi government, to operate on soldiers, police and civilian amputees wounded in the horrific war against ISIS. These stories are both heartbreaking and full of hope, and are told from the unique perspective of a refugee returning to the place of his birth as a celebrated international surgeon.

10.01.2022 This week Dr Munjed Al Muderis visited Booktopia to sign copies of new book Going Back which is available to pre-order now. If you'd like to get a signed copy in person, find Munjed at the following events sharing his remarkable story: 18 March - Mosman Library: Munjed Al Muderis Author Evening "Going Back"... 19 March - Sydney: Gleebooks 20 March - State Library of Queensland: Talking Ideas: Meet Munjed Al Muderis 21 March - Dymocks 424 George St Sydney: Literary Lunch See more

04.01.2022 Discover the incredible story of former refugee Dr Munjed Al Muderis as he talks to The Australian about developing cutting-edge surgery, and how he's returned to Iraq to change the lives of injured soldiers and civilians in the country he fled under Sadam Hussein.

03.01.2022 Hear Dr Munjed Al Muderis share his remarkable story with ABC Conversations.

01.01.2022 "How does a young doctor, driven out of Iraq by political violence that engulfs the very hospital he is working in, end up in the isolation unit of an Australian maximum security prison? Dr Munjed Al Muderis is the most celebrated of the contributors to a new book of stories by refugees who have endured Australia’s system of asylum-seeker detention. It was a mixed feeling, he recalls. Because now I was free but I was starting from zero. Munjed became one of the world’s top orthopaedic surgeons, in osseointegration, helping Australia’s war veterans walk again after losing their legs in battle."