The Cave
A Secret Underground Hospital and One Woman's Story of Survival in Syria
$49.98
- Hardcover
256 pages
- Release Date
2 April 2024
Summary
Simply put, there is no one in Syria with a story like Dr. Amani Ballour’s. The only woman to have ever run a wartime hospital, she saved her peers from the atrocities of war while contending with the patriarchal conservatism around her.
Growing up in Assad’s Syria, Ballour knew she wanted to be more than a housewife, even as her siblings were married off in their teens. As the revolution unfolded, she volunteered at a local clinic and was thrown into the deep end of emergency medicin…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781426222740 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1426222742 |
| Author: | Amani Ballour, Rania Abouzeid |
| Publisher: | National Geographic Society |
| Imprint: | National Geographic Society |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 2 April 2024 |
| Weight: | 431g |
| Dimensions: | 236mm x 158mm x 23mm |
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Critics Review
Starred Review, Publisher’s Weekly
“Ballour delivers a bruising memoir about her efforts to provide medical care amid her homeland’s ongoing civil war…Her narrative stands out for its attention to the daily logistical challenges of practicing medicine during wartime.“—Publisher’s Weekly
About The Author
Amani Ballour
Amani Ballour, M.D. is an internationally acclaimed humanitarian who advocates for women and children. She graduated from the University of Damascus in 2012 before running an underground medical facility, under attack from the Assad regime, known as The Cave. In 2018, Ballour was displaced to northern Syria before settling in the U.S. in 2021. A recipient of the Raoul Wallenberg Prize, she lives in New Jersey.
Rania Abouzeid is a multi-award-winning journalist who has reported from across the Middle East and South Asia for some two decades. The author of No Turning Back- Life, Loss, and Hope in Wartime Syria and Sisters of the War- Two Remarkable True Stories of Survival and Hope in Syria, her work has appeared in the New Yorker, Time magazine, National Geographic, and many other outlets. She lives in Beirut, Lebanon.
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