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Blindfold : a memoir of capture, torture, and enlightenment  Cover Image Book Book

Blindfold : a memoir of capture, torture, and enlightenment / Theo Padnos.

Padnos, Theo, 1968- (author.).

Summary:

The award-winning journalist presents a searing account of his experiences with being captured and tortured in Syria by al Qaeda for two years, detailing his related witness to Syrian village life.

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  • ISBN: 9781982120825 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: xv, 375 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Scribner, 2021.
Subject: Padnos, Theo, 1968- > Captivity.
Qaida (Organization)
Journalists > United States > Biography.
Hostages > Syria > Biography.
Hostages > United States > Biography.
Terrorism > Syria.
Syria > History > Civil War, 2011- > Personal narratives, American.
Genre: Biographies.
Autobiographies.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.

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Theo Padnos is the author of Undercover Muslim, which explored everyday life among westerners as they studied in Yemen’s religious academies. He was held prisoner by the Syrian al Qaeda affiliate, Jebhat al Nusra, between 2012 and 2014. A documentary film about his experiences called Theo Who Lived was released in 2016 and was a New York Times Critic’s Pick.

Theo Padnos is the author of Undercover Muslim, which explored everyday life among westerners as they studied in Yemen's religious academies. He was held prisoner by the Syrian al Qaeda affiliate, Jebhat al Nusra, between 2012 and 2014. A documentary film about his experiences called Theo Who Lived was released in 2016 and was a New York Times Critic's Pick.


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