My Terrifying Week Being Smuggled Out of Syria
Crammed onto a boat with 500 other refugees, watching it sink, realizing the red water it slipped into was filled with the blood of her fellow passengers—these are just some of the horrors Doaa Al Zamel had to endure in order to escape Syria's brutal civl war. In this exclusive excerpt, author Melissa Fleming chronicles a miraculous—but all too common—journey.