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A Disappearance in Damascus: A Story of Friendship and Survival in the Shadow of War

✍ Scribed by Campbell, Deborah

Book ID: 108917364
Publisher: Knopf Canada
Year: 2016
Tongue: en-US
Weight: 634 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9780345809292

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✦ Synopsis

In the midst of an unfolding international crisis, the renowned journalist Deborah Campbell finds herself swept up in the mysterious disappearance of Ahlam, her guide and friend. Her frank, personal account of a journey through fear, and the triumph of friendship and courage, is as riveting as it is illuminating.

The story begins in 2007 when Deborah Campbell travels undercover to Damascus to report on the exodus of Iraqis into Syria following the overthrow of Saddam Hussein. There she meets and hires Ahlam, a refugee working as a "fixer"—providing Western media with trustworthy information and contacts to help get the news out. Ahlam, who fled her home in Iraq after being kidnapped while running a humanitarian centre, not only supports her husband and two children through her work with foreign journalists but is setting up a makeshift school for displaced girls. She has become a charismatic, unofficial leader of the refugee community in Damascus, and...

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