My Road from Damascus - A Memoir (Unabridged)

An extraordinary account of survival in Syria's most notorious military prisons that is written with «brutal clarity – and yet, there is a poetic quality to the telling.» – Frances Itani, award-winning author of Deafening and Remembering the Bones Jamal Saeed arrived as a refugee in Canada in 2016. In his native Syria, as a young man, his writing pushed both social and political norms. For this reason, as well as his opposition to the regimes of the al-Assads, he was imprisoned on three occasions for a total of 12 years. In each instance, he was held without formal charge and without judicial process. My Road from Damascus not only tells the story of Saeed&#3…