Edition |
First U.S. edition. |
Description |
341 pages ; 22 cm |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [327]-341) |
Contents |
Exodus -- The fixer -- The apartment -- The death division -- A free bird -- Friendship -- Another country -- Ahlam's war -- A small triumph -- Assassins -- Damascus in winter -- These dark times -- The disappearance -- The cage -- Officialdom -- The fixer's fixer -- Alone together -- Ahlam's story, part one -- We accept everything -- Ahlam's story, part two -- Beirut -- The children -- Unexpected revelations -- Ahlam's story, part three -- Failure -- Ahlam's story, part four -- Adaptation -- Aftermath -- Exile. |
Summary |
A journalist documents her life-risking investigation into the abduction of her guide and friend, an Iraq-born Western media informant who worked at the head of a Damascus refugee community to provide education to displaced girls. |
Subject |
Mahmood, Ahlam A.
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Campbell, Deborah, 1970-
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Political prisoners -- Syria -- Biography.
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Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Refugees -- Syria -- Biography.
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Refugees -- Syria -- Biography.
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Refugees -- Iraq -- Biography.
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Journalists -- Canada -- Biography.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Editors, Journalists, Publishers.
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HISTORY / Military / Iraq War (2003-2011)
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern.
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Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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ISBN |
9781250147875 (hardcover) |
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1250147875 (hardcover) |
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