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Fahmy, Mohamed Fadel.
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Fahmy, Mohamed Fadel.
Fahmy, Mohamed Fadel -- Imprisonment.
Al Jazeera (Television network) -- Biography.
Journalists -- Egypt -- Biography.
Journalists -- Canada -- Biography.
False arrest -- Egypt.
False imprisonment -- Egypt.
Prisons -- Egypt.
Egypt -- History -- 1981-
Egypt -- Politics and government -- 1981-
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Fahmy, Mohamed Fadel.
Fahmy, Mohamed Fadel.
Fahmy, Mohamed Fadel -- Imprisonment.
Al Jazeera (Television network) -- Biography.
Journalists -- Egypt -- Biography.
Journalists -- Canada -- Biography.
False arrest -- Egypt.
False imprisonment -- Egypt.
Prisons -- Egypt.
Egypt -- History -- 1981-
Egypt -- Politics and government -- 1981-
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The Marriott cell : an epic journey from Cairo's Scorpion Prison to freedom / Mohamed Fahmy with Carol Shaben ; foreword by Amal Clooney.
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Fahmy, Mohamed Fadel.
Random House Canada, [2016]
Call #:
962
.056
F157m
Subjects
Fahmy, Mohamed Fadel.
Fahmy, Mohamed Fadel -- Imprisonment.
Al Jazeera (Television network) -- Biography.
Journalists -- Egypt -- Biography.
Journalists -- Canada -- Biography.
False arrest -- Egypt.
False imprisonment -- Egypt.
Prisons -- Egypt.
Egypt -- History -- 1981-
Egypt -- Politics and government -- 1981-
ISBN:
9780345816351 (hc.)
Description:
411 pages, [8] pages of plates ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:
The Al Jazeera journalist's seizure and 438-day imprisonment in Cairo's notorious Scorpion Prison. The personal drama of one man's fight for freedom, supported by Canadians across the country and media world-wide. On the night of December 29, 2013, the Egyptian government's anti-terror forces led a dramatic raid on the Marriott Hotel, seizing Fahmy, Canadian-Egyptian bureau chief for the independent English Al Jazeera, and two fellow journalists in what quickly became an international cause célèbre condemned as a travesty of justice. Inside the maximum-security prison, Fahmy found himself with some of the most hardened Al Qaeda and ISIS extremists and Muslim Brotherhood leaders: always intrepid, he never stopped being a journalist, taking advantage of his unexpected proximity to "interview" them and gain insight into their goals, into the feuds between Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the UAE on the one hand, and Qatar and its allies, including Turkey, on the other, and surfacing shocking details of torture inside military camps. Thrown into the toxic mix is the complex geo-political power brokering of our Western governments also, which left three men, wrongly convicted of conspiring with the Muslim Brotherhood and "fabricating news," struggling in a terrifying web he describes as a war on journalism. Threaded through it all is an inspiring love story, as Fahmy's fiancée, Marwa, used every means at her disposal to fight for his release and his health, even to risking her own freedom smuggling cell phones and messages in and out of prison.
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Memoirs.
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Shaben, Carol.
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