The Fox Hunt: A Refugee's Memoir Of Coming To America
- Author: Mohammed Al Samawi
- Narrator: Assaf Cohen
- Publisher: HarperCollins USA
- Duration: 10:08:49
Synopsis
A young man’s moving story of war, friendship, and hope in which he recounts his harrowing escape from a brutal civil war in Yemen with the help of a daring plan engineered on social media by a small group of interfaith activists in the West.
Born in the Old City of Sana’a, Yemen, to a pair of middle-class doctors, Mohammed Al Samawi was a devout Muslim raised to think of Christians and Jews as his enemy. But when Mohammed was twenty-three, he secretly received a copy of the Bible, and what he read cast doubt on everything he’d previously believed. After connecting with Jews and Christians on social media, and at various international interfaith conferences, Mohammed became an activist, making it his mission to promote dialogue and cooperation in Yemen.
Then came the death threats: first on Facebook, then through terrifying anonymous phone calls. To protect himself and his family, Mohammed fled to the southern port city of Aden. He had no way of knowing that Aden was about to become the heart of a north-south civil war, and the battleground for a well-funded proxy war between Iran and Saudi Arabia. As gunfire and grenades exploded throughout the city, Mohammed hid in the bathroom of his apartment and desperately appealed to his contacts on Facebook.
Miraculously, a handful of people he barely knew responded. Over thirteen days, four ordinary young people with zero experience in diplomacy or military exfiltration worked across six technology platforms and ten time zones to save this innocent young man trapped between deadly forces— rebel fighters from the north and Al Qaeda operatives from the south.
The story of an improbable escape as riveting as the best page-turning thrillers, The Fox Hunt reminds us that goodness and decency can triumph in the darkest circumstances.
Chapters
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001 The Fox Hunt
Duration: 33s -
002 Chapter 01
Duration: 11min -
003 Chapter 02
Duration: 20min -
004 Chapter 03
Duration: 27min -
005 Chapter 04
Duration: 22min -
006 Chapter 05
Duration: 25min -
007 Chapter 06
Duration: 40min -
008 Chapter 07
Duration: 36min -
009 Chapter 08
Duration: 30min -
010 Chapter 09
Duration: 23min -
011 Chapter 10
Duration: 09min -
012 Chapter 11
Duration: 23min -
013 Chapter 12
Duration: 32min -
014 Chapter 13
Duration: 16min -
015 Chapter 14
Duration: 19min -
016 Chapter 15
Duration: 17min -
017 Chapter 16
Duration: 11min -
018 Chapter 17
Duration: 23min -
019 Chapter 18
Duration: 13min -
020 Chapter 19
Duration: 08min