Sarah Shourd
Oakland, California, United States
Help a Palestinian Camp in Damascus!
<p>Sarah Shourd is a writer living in Oakland, California. She was captured by Iranian forces while hiking near an unmarked border between Iran and Iraqi Kurdistan in July ’09 and then held hostage in solitary confinement for 14 months at Evin Prison, Tehran. Sarah is an international solidarity activist who has taught Iraqi refugees in Damascus, organized with Direct Action to Stop the Wars, worked with the Zapatistas in Chiapas, Mexico and organized against femicide in Juarez, Mexico. She has written for The New York Times, CNN.com and Newsweek’s Daily Beast. She is currently writing a book with Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal about their experience as hostages and working as a Grassroots Organizer with <a href="http://United4Iran" target="_hplink">United4Iran</a>. </p>
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