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About the Book

	READ an excerpt and reviews of the book
	WATCH interviews with Eggers & the Zeitouns
	LISTEN to Eggers & Zeitoun speak about the book
	LEARN more about the book and the Zeitoun Foundation

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Resource guide for First Year Writing Instructors
The BEST Zeitoun Readers Guide
This reader's guide is written by first year students in the Bridge to Engineering Success at Tufts (BEST) Program.

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Zeitoun by Dave Eggers

Zeitoun by Dave Eggers tells the true story of Syrian immigrant Abdulrahman Zeitoun and his family in New Orleans at the time of Hurricane Katrina. It deals with race, religion, culture, and bias, through one man’s struggle to be an active citizen during a time of crisis.

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Excerpts from the Book

Click on the Google Book preview to read the first four chapters or go to the New York Times to read an excerpt of Chapter 1.

Selected Book Reviews

New York Times
Egan, Timothy. "After the Deluge." New York Times. New York Times, 13 Aug. 2009. Web.
Wall Street Journal
Alter, Alexandra. "A Family's Flood." The Wall Street Journal, 17 July 2009. Web.
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Larson, Susan. "Abdulrahman Zeitoun's Poet-Katrina Odyssey." New Orleans Times-Picayune, 14 July 2009. Web.
The Guardian
Younge, Gary. "Zeitoun by Dave Eggers." The Guardian, 27 March 2010. Web.
Prospect Magazine
Tel, Jonathan. "Paddling in the Shallows." Prospect, 24 Feb. 2010. Web.

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Eggers speaks about Zeitoun for the Muslim Public Affairs Council Foundation Media Awards. Eggers was an awarded the MPAC Foundation Media Award in 2010.

Amy Goodman from Democracy Now! speaks to Dave Eggers and Abdulrahman and Kathy Zeitoun about the book.

Josh Parr, a journalism student from Southern Methodist University, interviews Zeitoun as part of his campus newspaper's NOLA Now series.

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Listen

This National Public Radio broadcast intertwines excerpts of the book read by Eggers with an interview of both Eggers and Zeitoun.

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Learn

Zeitoun: Reader's Guide
Discussion questions and brief info on the book. From Random House.
The Zeitoun Foundation
"Created in 2009 to aid in the rebuilding of and ongoing health of the city of New Orleans, and to help ensure the human rights of all Americans."

According to Eggers the majority of the proceeds of the book go directly to the Zeitoun Foundation. To date the foundation has distributed over $200,000 in grants to non-profits.

Visit the website to learn more about the foundation and read updates on the Zeitoun family, book awards, reader responses, etc.

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