Fighting for Hakeem

by Craig Foster and Alex Engel-Mallon

Football is the world game. It unites. At a grassroots level it creates communities and, in 2019, those communities helped save the life of one of its own. In 2012, Hakeem al-Araibi was a promising young player on Bahrain's national football team when he was arrested for attacking a police station during the Arab Spring, despite television footage showing him playing soccer at the time of the alleged attack. After three months of torture and wrongful...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0733643167
• ISBN13: 9780733643163
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: Hachette Australia
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.1"