In 2007, journalist Deborah Campbell traveled to Damascus to report on the flow of Iraqi refugees into Syria following the fall of Saddam Hussein. While there, she hired an Iraqi refugee named Ahlam to help her as a fixer. But while working together, Ahlam was kidnapped in front of her eyes. In her recent book A Disappearance in Damascus: A Story of Friendship and Survival in the Shadow of War, Campbell reco…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AM on September 18, 2017