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A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea: One Refugee’s Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival by Melissa Fleming
A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea By Melissa Fleming is a story about Doaa and her family leaves 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.
A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea By Melissa Fleming chronicles the life of Doaa, a Syrian girl whose life was upended in 2011 by the onset of her country’s brutal civil war. Doaa and her fiance, Bassem, decide to flee to Europe to seek safety and education, but four days at sea, their boat is sunk by another boat filled with angry men shouting threats and insults.
With no land in sight and surrounded by bloated, floating corpses, Doaa is adrift with a child’s inflatable water ring around her waist, while two little girls cling to her neck. Doaa must stay alive for them. She must not lose strength. She must not lose hope.
