⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Hostage by Eli Sharabi is one of the most disturbing and courageous memoirs I’ve ever read. He chronicles 491 days in Hamas captivity with haunting precision, capturing every sensory assault in agonizing detail. Iron shackles bite into his ankles. The stench from a broken toilet fills the air. Tiny white worms crawl over his toothbrush. With only one meager meal a day, he watches his belly cave inward as his body and spirit are tested beyond measure. Yet amid this torment, Sharabi clings to the smallest shards of humanity—helping fellow captives, whispering words of hope, refusing to let his captors extinguish his faith in life itself. When freedom finally […]
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Proof of Life – Book Review
The devil’s finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist. ~ Daniel Levin, Proof of Life Daniel Levin, a board member of the Liechtenstein Foundation for State Governance, was at his office one day when he got a call from an acquaintance with an urgent, cryptic request to meet in Paris. A young man who had set out for Aleppo, Syria to assist a group of volunteer doctors had gone missing and no government, embassy, or intelligence agency would help. So begins the story of one man’s search to find a missing person in Syria over eighteen tense days. Levin, a lawyer turned armed conflict negotiator, uses […]
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