A Book That Will Shake Your Soul…
Every once in a while you come across a book that shakes you and makes you think. Just Five Minutes: Nine Years in the Prisons of Syria is one such book. The book is written by Heba Dabbagh and translated to English by Bayan Khatib. Once I picked this book up, I couldn’t put it down until I finished it.
This book is memoir of a political prisoner who was imprisoned in Syria for nine years as a hostage for her brother who was wanted for being a member of an outlawed government opposition group. The suffering Heba Dabbagh endured in the prisons of Syria is beyond imagination.
Besides the gripping story of young woman’s incredible struggles, this book will also open your eyes to a world of oppression and human rights violations that more of us should learn about and act against.