Mohamed's Ghosts: An American Story of Love and Fear in the Homeland
Автор:Stephan Salisbury Год: 2012 Издание: [не указанo] Страниц: 444 ISBN: 1459602374 Mohamed Ghorab had no hint one late spring morning that when he dropped his daughter off at school' his life would change forever. Federal agents and police surrounded him in front of terrified parents' teachers and school children. They hustled him off to jail and eventually deported him. His wife was detained at the same time. Agents raided the obscure Philadelphia mosque where Ghorab was imam' ransacking its simple interior and his house next door. This was a fearful time in the life of America following 9/11' as prize - winning reporter Stephan Salisbury well knew. But he did not anticipate the extremity of fear that emerged as he explored the aftermath of that virtually forgotten raid. Over time' the members of the mosque and the imam's family opened up to him' giving Salisbury a unique opportunity to chronicle the demolition of lives and families' the spread of anti - immigrant hysteria and its manipulation by the government. As he explored these events' Salisbury was constantly...
