Una Esperanza Mas Poderosa Que El Mar - Melissa... Guide

As the days passed, other survivors succumbed to dehydration, exhaustion, and despair. In their final moments, two terrified parents handed Doaa their infant children, praying this young girl could do what they could not.

In 2015, the image of a lifeless Syrian boy washed up on a Turkish beach shocked the world's conscience. But behind the horrifying statistics of the Mediterranean refugee crisis are stories of unimaginable survival. None are more gripping than that of Doaa Al Zamel, a 19-year-old Syrian girl whose journey is chronicled in Melissa Fleming’s breathtaking book, A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea . Una esperanza mas poderosa que el mar - Melissa...

Doaa’s story begins in Daraa, Syria, the cradle of the revolution. As war destroys her home, her family flees to Egypt. But as the political climate shifts and life becomes untenable there, Doaa and her fiancé, Bassem, make the agonizing decision to pay smugglers for a passage to Europe. As the days passed, other survivors succumbed to

With a baby clamped to each side of her body, Doaa floated for nearly four days without food or water. She sang to the babies, prayed, and fought off the urge to simply let go and let the sea take her. But behind the horrifying statistics of the Mediterranean