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Zeitoun
by Dave Eggers
He stayed to help after Katrina. They arrested him instead.
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you want to understand what happened in New Orleans after Katrina through the man who stayed and helped and was punished for it
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Abdulrahman Zeitoun is a Syrian American contractor in New Orleans who stays behind during Hurricane Katrina to protect his property and help his neighbors. He paddles through the flooded city in a canoe, rescuing people, feeding dogs, doing what he can. Then he is arrested by paramilitary police, held without charge in a makeshift prison, denied a phone call for weeks. Eggers reconstructs this true story with documentary precision. The most important post-Katrina dispatch — not about the storm but about what happened after: the racism, the Islamophobia, the collapse of due process, the specific experience of being Muslim and Arab in America in 2005.
WHERE THIS BOOK LIVES
- Setting
- Syria • Middle East
- Voice
- Written by a Syrian author
- Themes
- After EmpireWitness
