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Blindfold - A Memoir of Capture, Torture, and Enlightenment (Paperback)
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Blindfold - A Memoir of Capture, Torture, and Enlightenment (Paperback)
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An award-winning journalist's extraordinary account of being
kidnapped and tortured in Syria by al Qaeda for two years--a
revelatory memoir about war, human nature, and endurance that's
"the best of the genre, profound, poetic, and sorrowful" (The
Atlantic). In 2012, American journalist Theo Padnos, fluent in
Arabic, Russian, German, and French, traveled to a Turkish border
town to write and report on the Syrian civil war. One afternoon in
October, while walking through an olive grove, he met three young
Syrians--who turned out to be al Qaeda operatives--and they
captured him and kept him prisoner for nearly two years. On his
first day, in the first of many prisons, Padnos was given a
blindfold--a grime-stained scrap of fabric--that was his only
possession throughout his horrific ordeal. Now, Padnos recounts his
time in captivity in Syria, where he was frequently tortured at the
hands of the al Qaeda affiliate, Jebhat al Nusra. We learn not only
about Padnos's harrowing experience, but we also get a firsthand
account of life in a Syrian village, the nature of Islamic prisons,
how captors interrogate someone suspected of being CIA, the ways
that Islamic fighters shift identities and drift back and forth
through the veil of Western civilization, and much more. No other
journalist has lived among terrorists for as long as Theo has--and
survived. As a resident of thirteen separate prisons in every part
of rebel-occupied Syria, Theo witnessed a society adrift amid a
steady stream of bombings, executions, torture, prayer, fasting,
and exhibitions, all staged by the terrorists. Living within this
tide of violence changed not only his personal identity but also
profoundly altered his understanding of how to live. Offering
fascinating, unprecedented insight into the state of Syria today,
Blindfold is "a triumph of the human spirit" (The New York Times
Book Review)--combining the emotional power of a captive's memoir
with a journalist's account of a culture and a nation in conflict
that is as urgent and important as ever.
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