Una Esperanza Mas Poderosa Que El Mar - Melissa... «PREMIUM | SERIES»

As the days passed, other survivors succumbed to dehydration, exhaustion, and despair. In their final moments, two terrified parents handed Doaa their infant children, praying this young girl could do what they could not.

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Doaa’s story begins in Daraa, Syria, the cradle of the revolution. As war destroys her home, her family flees to Egypt. But as the political climate shifts and life becomes untenable there, Doaa and her fiancé, Bassem, make the agonizing decision to pay smugglers for a passage to Europe. Una esperanza mas poderosa que el mar - Melissa...

In 2015, the image of a lifeless Syrian boy washed up on a Turkish beach shocked the world's conscience. But behind the horrifying statistics of the Mediterranean refugee crisis are stories of unimaginable survival. None are more gripping than that of Doaa Al Zamel, a 19-year-old Syrian girl whose journey is chronicled in Melissa Fleming’s breathtaking book, A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea .

Melissa Fleming’s non-fiction book, "A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea," tells the harrowing yet inspiring true story of Doaa Al Zamel, a young Syrian refugee who survived days at sea after her ship was wrecked by human traffickers. As the days passed, other survivors succumbed to

Fleming’s writing is urgent and deeply empathetic. She transforms Doaa from a anonymous statistic in a news chyron into a living, breathing symbol of the refugee experience.

They boarded a decrepit, overcrowded fishing boat with 500 other hopeful souls. Four days into the journey, angry traffickers rammed their vessel. As the boat capsize, Doaa watched hundreds of people drown instantly. Bassem did not survive. Doaa’s story begins in Daraa, Syria, the cradle

Fleming, the Chief Spokesperson for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), does not just write about the crisis from a distance. She brings us directly into the heart of it through Doaa's eyes.