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Emotionally riveting and eye-opening, A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea is the incredible story of a young woman, an international crisis, and the triumph of the human spirit.Melissa Fleming shares the harrowing journey of Doaa Al Zamel, a young Syrian refugee in search of a better life. Doaa and her family leave war-torn Syria for Egypt where the climate is becoming politically unstable and increasingly dangerous. She meets and falls in love with Bassem, a former Free Syrian Army fighter and together they decide to leave behind the hardship and harassment they face in Egypt to flee for Europe, joining the ranks of the thousands of refugees who make the dangerous journey across the Mediterranean on overcrowded and run-down ships to seek asylum overseas and begin a new life.
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Melissa Fleming worked for eight years as is Chief Spokesperson for the United High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and is currently Senior Advisor to the UN Secretary General. She travels to war zones and refugee camps to give voice to the millions of people forcibly displaced from their homes. She told one remarkable refugee story on the TED stage: https://go.ted.com/CLTR about an extraordinary young Syrian woman who, with the baby she saved, was one of the only survivors of a boat wreck that killed 500 refugees, including her fiancé. Her book on the story, "A Hope More Powerful than the Sea": www.hopemorepowerful.com was published by Flatiron Books in January in the U.S. and by Fleet in the UK. Several other foreign editions are expected soon.
She grew up in Marblehead, Mass. and has spent her adult life in Europe working for international organizations that promote refugee protection, nuclear safety and non-proliferation, democracy and human rights and free media.
Twitter: @melissarfleming
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MelissaFlemingUNHCR/
