Map of Hope and Sorrow: Stories of Refugees Trapped in Greece

Author: Helen Benedict, Eyad Awwadawnan
Publisher: Footnote Press
Published: 10/18/2022
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.43h x 5.28w x 1.10d
ISBN13: 9781804440018
ISBN10: 1804440019
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Refugees
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs
- Social Science | Emigration & Immigration

About the Author
Helen Benedict is a recipient of the 2021 PEN Jean Stein Grant for Literary Oral History and the Ida B. Wells Award for Bravery in Journalism. She is the author of 13 books, including the award-winning The Lonely Soldier: The Private War of Women at War Serving in Iraq, and the novel Wolf Season. Her writing inspired both a class action suit against the Pentagon on behalf of people sexually assaulted in the military and the 2012 Oscar-nominated documentary, The Invisible War. She is a Professor of Journalism at Columbia University, New York.

Eyad Awwadawnan, formerly a law student from Damascus, Syria, is a writer and poet currently living as an asylum-seeker in Reykjavik, Iceland. During his four years in Greece, he worked as a cultural mediator, translator and interpreter for various NGOs.