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Schrier, Matthew.
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Schrier, Matthew.
Jabhat al-Nuṣrah (Organization)
Political kidnapping -- Syria.
Political prisoners -- Syria -- Biography.
Photojournalists -- United States -- Biography.
Journalists -- United States -- Biography.
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Schrier, Matthew.
Schrier, Matthew.
Jabhat al-Nuṣrah (Organization)
Political kidnapping -- Syria.
Political prisoners -- Syria -- Biography.
Photojournalists -- United States -- Biography.
Journalists -- United States -- Biography.
Prisoners of war -- Abuse of -- Syria -- 21st century.
Terrorists -- Middle East.
Escapes -- Syria -- Biography.
Syria -- History -- Civil War, 2011-
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Dawn prayer : (or how to survive in a secret Syrian terrorist prison) / Matthew Schrier.
by
Schrier, Matthew.
BenBella Books, Inc., 2018.
Call #:
956.910423 S379d
Subjects
Schrier, Matthew.
Jabhat al-Nuṣrah (Organization)
Political kidnapping
--
Syria
.
Political
prisoners
--
Syria
--
Biography.
Photojournalists
--
United States
--
Biography.
Journalists
--
United States
--
Biography.
Prisoners
of
war
--
Abuse
of
--
Syria
--
21st
century
.
Terrorists
--
Middle East.
Escapes
--
Syria
--
Biography.
Syria
--
History
--
Civil
War
, 2011-
ISBN:
9781944648886 (hc.)
Description:
xiii, 297 p. ; 24 cm.
Summary:
"A photographer captured in
Syria
and imprisoned for seven months recounts his story and how he became the first American ever to escape al-Qaeda. "What is your name?" asked General Mohammad. "Matthew," I said. I had stopped saying Matt a while ago because it means 'dead' in Arabic. On New Year's Eve in 2012, Matthew Schrier was headed home from
Syria
, where he'd been photographing the intense combat of the country's civil
war
. Just forty-five minutes from the safety of the Turkish border, he was taken prisoner by the al-Nusra Front, an organization the world would come to know as the Syrian branch of al-Qaeda. Over the next seven months he would endure torture and near starvation in six brutal terrorist prisons. He would face a daily struggle just to survive. And, eventually, he would escape. In this gripping, raw, and surprisingly funny memoir, Schrier details the horrifying and frequently surreal experience of being a slight, wisecracking Jewish guy held captive by the world's most violent Islamic extremists. Managing to keep his heritage a secret, Schrier used humor to develop relationships with his captors--and to keep himself sane during the long months of captivity. The Dawn Prayer (or How to Survive in a Secret Syrian Terrorist Prison) is a tale of patriotism and unimaginable bleakness shot through with light, of despair and friendship, sacrifice and betrayal, in a setting of bombed-out buildings and shifting alliances. It's the story of the first Westerner to escape al-Qaeda--not a battle-hardened soldier, but an ordinary New Yorker who figured out how to set his escape plan in motion from a scene in Jurassic Park. From the
prisoners
' fiercely competitive hacky sack games and volleyball tournaments (played using a ball made of shredded orange peels and a shoelace) to his own truly nail-biting breakout, Matthew Schrier's story is unforgettable--and one you won't want to miss."--From publisher.
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Memoirs.
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