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Name Instructor’s Name Course Date Author: Dave Eggers Article Title: “Zeitoun (book)” Article Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeitoun_(book)

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Idea: Love and conflicts The relationship is between Abdulrahman Zeitoun and Kathy Zeitoun. They were married and had divorced. Abdulrahman Zeitoun, the Syrian-American founder of a painting and contracting business in New Orleans, Louisiana, opted to stay in his Uptown home during Hurricane Katrina. He toured the devastated city in a reconditioned canoe after the hurricane, saving neighbors, looking for abandoned pets, and providing fresh water. Still, he was detained without cause or justification at one of his apartment complexes with three colleagues by a mixed crowd of US Army National Guard soldiers and law enforcement officers. Zeitoun and the others were held for 23 days after being suspected of terrorist acts, possibly due to the large sums of money

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found in their hands, as well as maps of the city and a storage disk. Zeitoun was denied medical care and access to a phone to contact his relatives. His wife and daughters, who lived with friends outside of town, only found out after he disappeared. Abdulrahman Zeitoun was born and raised in Syria. Zeitoun endured twenty years at the shore as a muscleman, mechanic, and fisherman after completing a traineeship in the Syrian port city of Jableh. He toured the globe during this period and finally settled in the United States in 1988. Zeitoun met his future wife Kathy, a Baton Rouge native, with whom he formed Zeitoun Painting Contractors LLC. Kathy became a Muslim. Kathy and her four children left New Orleans for Baton Rouge in late August 2005, as Hurricane Katrina approached. Zeitoun remained behind to keep an eye on their house, ongoing construction projects, and rental properties. Even though they were miles from the closest levees, their neighborhood was flooded up to the second floor of most houses once the storm hit. In a secondhand canoe, Zeitoun began exploring the area, distributing whatever supplies he had, airlifting neighbors to open elevations, and caring for stray dogs. A large group of US Army National Guardsmen, police department, and external state police arrested Zeitoun and three colleagues on September 6 at one of Zeitoun's rental houses. They were held for three days in a temporary jail at a Greyhound bus station, dubbed "Camp Greyhound," before being moved to the Elayn Hunt Correctional Center in nearby St. Gabriel, Louisiana. Zeitoun was held at Hunt for another 20 days without being tried, but he was granted a bail of $75,000, and his charges were read to him. He was detained and placed in segregation after being questioned by officers and then by ICE officials. Aftermath

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According to the novel, Kathy had trouble dealing with the trauma of the jailing and subsequent incidents in the years afterward. In the following years, the marital relationship worsened, and they separated in 2012. Abdulrahman was arrested in July 2012 for allegedly assaulting Kathy with a tire iron on Prytania Street. He was convicted in August 2012 of planning the murders of Kathy Zeitoun, her son, and another man. Officials were informed by an inmate awaiting sentencing with Zeitoun that he was asked to participate in the plot. Zeitoun was acquitted on charges of alleged first-degree homicide and encouragement of first-degree murder in July 2013. The state's key witness, who had a lengthy criminal record in several states, was considered untrustworthy. "On Monday [June 6, 2016], an Orleans Parish judge found Zeitoun guilty of felony stalking, which carries a term of two to five years in prison. After a one-day bench trial, Criminal District Court Judge Keva Landrum-Johnson found that Zeitoun regularly disobeyed a restraining order prohibiting him from approaching his ex-wife, Kathy Zeitoun, or any of the assets they shared after their divorce. He was accused of felony stalking his ex-wife in 2016, and his 4-year prison term in Louisiana was completed in 2018. His deportation has been requested, but he remains in the United States because his home country of Syria cannot process deportees.

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