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

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Winner of the Hilary Weston Writers’ Accept as true with Prize for Nonfiction

Winner of the Freedom to Read Award

Winner of the Hubert Evans Prize

In the midst of an unfolding international crisis, renowned journalist Deborah Campbell finds herself swept up in the mysterious disappearance of Ahlam, her guide and friend. Campbell’s frank, personal account of a journey through fear and the triumph of friendship and courage is as riveting as it’s 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 assist get the news out. Ahlam has fled her home in Iraq after being kidnapped even as running a humanitarian center. She supports her husband and two children even as working to set up a makeshift school for displaced girls. Strong and charismatic, she has change into an unofficial leader of the refugee community.

Campbell is inspired by Ahlam’s determination to create something good amid such a lot suffering, and the two women change into close friends. But one morning, Ahlam is seized from her home in front of Campbell’s eyes. Haunted by the prospect that their work together has led to her friend’s arrest, Campbell spends the months that follow desperately looking for Ahlam—all of the even as fearing she may well be next.

The compelling story of two women caught up in the shadowy politics at the back of today’s most searing conflict, A Disappearance in Damascus reminds us of the courage of those who risk their lives to bring us the world’s news.

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