Reading by Deborah Campbell

Join us for a special Green College literary event with award-winning writer Deborah Campbell as she launches A Disappearance in Damascus. The book tells the story of how the author found herself swept up in the mysterious disappearance of Ahlam, her guide and friend, in the midst of an international crisis. Her frank, personal account of a journey through fear, and the triumph of friendship and courage, is as riveting as it is illuminating.

Deborah Campbell is an award-winning writer who has reported from Iran, Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon, the UAE, Qatar, Israel, Palestine, Cuba, Mexico and Russia. Her work, much of which involves spending long periods of time in the societies she covers, has appeared in Harper's, the Economist, Foreign Policy, the Guardian, New Scientist, Ms., The Walrus, and other publications. She has won several National Magazine Awards for her foreign correspondence and teaches nonfiction writing at the University of British Columbia. A Disappearance in Damascus recently won the Hilary Weston Writer's Trust non-ficiton prize.

Gripping, inspiring, and at times intensely sorrowful, A Disappearance in Damascus provides a portrait of tremendous courage and resourcefulness within the community of Iraqi war survivors in Syria, the devastation war wreaks upon civilians, and a remarkable friendship between two women.” —Phil Klay, winner of the 2014 National Book Award for Redeployment