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The Marriott cell : an epic journey from Cairo's Scorpion Prison to freedom
- Title
- The Marriott cell : an epic journey from Cairo's Scorpion Prison to freedom / Mohamed Fahmy ; with Carol Shaben ; foreword by Amal Clooney.
- Author
- Fahmy, Mohamed Fadel
- Publication
- Toronto : Random House Canada, [2016]
- ©2016
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Shaben, Carol
- Description
- 411 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- "The revealing, widely anticipated story by the internationally award-winning journalist is as riveting as a political thriller: it opens an astonishing window onto the closed world of geo-political power brokering as he takes us behind his headline-generating seizure and 438-day imprisonment in Cairo's notorious Scorpion Prison with leading terrorists; through the love story that made front-page news; to the profoundly personal drama of one man's fight for freedom, supported by Canadians across the country and media world-wide. With a foreword by international human rights lawyer, Amal Clooney. 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 Scorpion 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, courageously 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 "Global McCarthyism" and 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."--
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 394-411).
- Additional Formats (note)
- Issued also in electronic format.
- Call Number
- JFE 17-2968
- ISBN
- 9780345816351
- 0345816358
- OCLC
- 953630255
- Author
- Fahmy, Mohamed Fadel, author.
- Title
- The Marriott cell : an epic journey from Cairo's Scorpion Prison to freedom / Mohamed Fahmy ; with Carol Shaben ; foreword by Amal Clooney.
- Publisher
- Toronto : Random House Canada, [2016]
- Copyright Date
- ©2016
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 394-411).
- Additional Formats
- Issued also in electronic format.
- Added Author
- Shaben, Carol, editor.
- Other Form:
- Fahmy, Mohamed Fadel, author. Marriott cell. (CaOONL)20169045528
- Research Call Number
- JFE 17-2968