The Cave: A Secret Underground Hospital and One Woman's Story of Survival in Syria

by Rania Abouzeid and Amani Ballour

Book Overview

This searing memoir tells the story of a young doctor and activist who ran an underground hospital in Damascus, humanizing the enduring crisis in Syria.

There is no one in Syria with a story like Dr. Amani Ballour's. The only woman to have ever run a wartime hospital, she saved her peers from the atrocities of war while contending with the patriarchal conservatism around her.

Growing up in Assad's Syria, Ballour knew she wanted...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1426222742
• ISBN13: 9781426222740
• Release Date: March 2024
• Publisher: National Geographic Society
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"