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Three Days in Damascus - A Memoir (Paperback)
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Three Days in Damascus - A Memoir (Paperback)
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Loot Price R436
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THREE DAYS IN DAMASCUS is a memoir about a three year fight for a
chance at love with an Iraqi refugee the author met in Syria. While
traveling to Jordan, Lebanon and Syria to interview Iraqi refugees
and hear some of their stories, Kim never expected to fall in love
with one of them. But that is exactly what happened. This is the
story of one American woman and one Iraqi man set against the
backdrop of the Iraqi refugee crisis. Through actual Iraqi refugee
interviews, a whirlwind middle-eastern love story and the
consequently doomed, intercontinental relationship told through
texts and emails with civil war, revolution and an arranged
marriage as the backdrop, we learn of culture and devastation,
desperation and redemption, while still never losing hope. While
there are roughly 65 million refugees worldwide, approximately five
million Iraqis have been displaced from their homes since the U.S
led invasion of their country, most of them fleeing to Jordan,
Lebanon and Syria. Since Syria is currently in the midst of a
violent civil war, the Iraqis there are left in an extremely
dangerous position- stuck between a rock and a hard place with
nowhere to go. This timely memoir examines the lives of dozens of
these Iraqi refugees trying desperately to survive in a world blind
to their plight and one Iraqi in particular: Omar. Told through a
strong narrative and a surprisingly comedic lens, the reader
travels with the author through this unknown, sandy terrain
breaking assumptions, stereotypes and expectations - in a journey
that ultimately ends in the most traditional assumption one could
imagine: a Middle Eastern man agreeing to an arranged marriage. And
after three years of trying to "save" Omar and salvage a life
for/with him, she discovers maybe he wasn't the one who needed
saving.
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